Amazon unveiled four new Kindle Fire tablet computers on Thursday, including ones with larger color screens, as the online retailer steps up competition with Apple ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 6, 2012
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Vienna University of Technology physicists have studied the transition of quantum systems towards thermal equilibrium. They detected an astonishingly stable intermediate state between order and disorder. The results are being ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 6, 2012
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Sorting good data from bad is critical when analyzing microscopic structures like cells and their contents, according to researchers at Rice University. The trick is to find the right window of time through which to look.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 6, 2012
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Imagine that the players on your favourite football team were smaller than their opponents, and had to play without helmets or pads. Left defenseless, they would become easy prey for other teams. Similarly, changes in Canadian ...
Ecology
Sep 6, 2012
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A team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island has developed an advanced blood-testing technology that incorporates a smartphone application, a hand-held biosensor and a credit card-sized cartridge to ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 6, 2012
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The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season spawned two hurricanes this week and NASA satellites have been monitoring them and providing valuable data to forecasters. NASA's TRMM satellite saw very heavy rainfall and powerful towering ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2012
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Beleaguered telecom giant Nokia apologised on Thursday for a video demonstration that led viewers to believe it had been filmed with its new smartphone but was in fact made with other equipment.
Business
Sep 6, 2012
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(AP)—Google Inc. has chosen a site just outside the capital of Chile for its first data center in Latin America.
Business
Sep 6, 2012
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Can a computer "read" an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal.
Computer Sciences
Sep 6, 2012
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NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Leslie on Sept. 5 during a picture perfect moment, just as it was being re-classified as a hurricane, and captured two images of the storm.
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2012
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