(Phys.org) —A fundamental question in the evolution of animal body plans, is where did the head come from? In animals with a clear axis of right-left symmetry, the bilaterians, the head is where the brain ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 28, 2013 4 / 5 (5) 20 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members from the U.S. and Canada has found that two species of fish that live in caves in the eastern and central parts of the United States have suffered hearing ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 3 |

(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers from Germany's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have published a paper in the journal Biology Letters, suggesting that the mass extinction of pseudosuchians approximately 201 mi ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 28, 2013 4.5 / 5 (8) 5 |

(Phys.org) —The identification of spider species based on pattern recognition of their cobwebs has been shown to be quite possible and successful. The paper, "Spider specie identification and verification ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Phinergy, an Israeli developer of metal-air energy systems, has demonstrated a new type of aluminum-air battery that is capable of providing enough energy to power an electric vehicle (EV) for ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 27, 2013 4.4 / 5 (24) 60 |

(Phys.org) —An international team of space scientists led by Philippe Delorme of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France has taken a photograph of what might be a very large planet orbiting two suns. ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 27, 2013 4.9 / 5 (11) 8 |

(Phys.org) —What is the shortest route that a traveling salesman must take to visit a number of specified cities in a tour, stopping at each city once and only once before returning to the starting point? ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 26, 2013 4.2 / 5 (10) 2 |

(Phys.org) —Hospital-skittish people are convinced they will leave the hospital far sicker than when they came in. While assured they are working on groundless fear, recent hospital-borne infections make ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org) —A research team at the University of Southampton in England has built a fiber cable that is capable of carrying data at 99.7 percent of the vacuum-speed of light. They have done so, they report ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (13) 3 |

(Phys.org) —British scientists from several research facilities across the country have found that an enzyme called glutathione transferase which is known to neutralize toxins meant to stem the growth of tum ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 26, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 1 |

(Phys.org) —Two math and physics researchers from the University's of Barcelona and Madrid respectively have developed an algorithm to count prime numbers using a quantum computer. José Latorre and Germán ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Mar 26, 2013 4 / 5 (6) 3 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers from Dartmouth College in the U.S. as part of their presentation at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this past week, have given evidence that suggests it was a come ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (9) 2 |

(Phys.org) —Money launderers thinking virtual currency provides an easy way to towel-off have had a rude awakening this month with the U.S. Treasury announcing that virtual currencies, like real currencies, ...

Technology - Internet

Mar 25, 2013 3.8 / 5 (12) 14 |

(Phys.org)—Perceptions, design concepts, and expectations of Google Glass roll on, with yet another patent filing by Google. This time the call is for a Google Glass-like wearable computer to be the ultimate ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Mar 24, 2013 3.8 / 5 (5) 19 |

Want to play smartwatch? That's the game where you pretend to buy a big-vendor smartwatch that doesn't exist but everyone talks about nonetheless. There is the Samsung smartwatch rumor mill, the Apple smartwatch ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 22, 2013 3.6 / 5 (5) 5 |