Without leap years, Earth would experience "calendar climate change" and the seasons would completely swap every 750 years, a Queensland University of Technology scientist says.
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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During Northern Queensland’s wet season, many people know to avoid driving or walking through floodwater for safety reasons, but researchers have found they should also avoid it to protect their health.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 1, 2012
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Research by social psychologists could and should play a bigger role in local and national policymaking, say a group of Sussex academics.
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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People who are considered ambitious attend the best colleges and universities, have prestigious careers and earn high salaries, but they don’t necessarily lead more successful lives, according to new research by Timothy ...
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- No long lines winding down Madison Avenue; no marching bands in Barcelona; no glossy ads in mainstream magazines. Just news of a product available for pre-order is all it took to trigger a crush of responders ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2007, Pittsburgh, after Chicago, was the most decentralized metropolitan region in the United States, according to the Metropolitan Power Diffusion Index (MPDI) released by the Center for Metropolitan ...
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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A newly published study shows Australians must work with international partners if they are to save all of Australia's birds.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2012
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For millions of HIV-positive people in the developing world, accurate measurement of their medical condition is invaluable. So in recent years, Daktari Diagnostics, a Cambridge-based startup, has been developing a small, ...
Engineering
Mar 1, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil-rich countries would seem to have won the mineral equivalent of the lottery, tapping into the kind of vast wealth that their counterparts with more diversified economies could only dream of.
Economics & Business
Mar 1, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding ...
General Physics
Mar 1, 2012
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