(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago tomorrow, March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime.
Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2011
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Over 50 percent of the population in the United States and over 60 percent in the world live in coastal areas. Rapidly growing human populations near the ocean have massively altered coastal water ecosystems.
Ecology
Mar 10, 2011
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A British museum said Thursday it had agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.
Archaeology
Mar 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By using light to change the elasticity of a DNA molecule, scientists have designed a molecular motor that can turn light into mechanical work. Unlike most previously reported molecular motors, the proposed ...
In recent years, many network scientists have turned their attention away from centralized networks — such as the Internet and the cell-phone network -- and toward ad hoc networks, wireless networks formed on the fly ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2011
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The UN on Thursday expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution, urging an international effort to save the pollinators that are vital for food crops.
Ecology
Mar 10, 2011
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Sales of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone4 are set to top 100 million units for the first time this year in the Asia Pacific market -- excluding Japan, an industry analyst said Thursday.
Business
Mar 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not just the type of molecules a material is made of, the way in which they are arranged in space is important too. For many organic molecules, multiple crystal structures are known, and their physical ...
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2011
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An expert in death studies at the University of Bath is warning that Britain is not prepared for the death of the post-war baby-boomers.
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by mathematicians in Australia has explained how skin remains stable in water and does not dissolve, and why it wrinkles and remains a strong barrier even after absorbing large quantities of water.
