Although humans and woolly mammoths co-existed for millennia, the shaggy giants disappeared from the globe between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, and scientists couldn't explain until recently exactly how the Flinstonian behemoths ...
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2012
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An international team of aquanauts has begun training at a lab deep in the Atlantic Ocean for an eventual visit to an asteroid, NASA said.
Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2012
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Giant volcanic eruptions in Nicaragua over the past 70,000 years could have injected enough gases into the atmosphere to temporarily thin the ozone layer, according to new research. And, if it happened today, a similar explosive ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2012
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If the ‘reality’ of the digital moving image is eschewed, video can be considered as a medium of performative expressions rather than 'representations' of some external states. Video becomes an emotional medium, ...
Economics & Business
Jun 12, 2012
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Fujitsu today announced that it has developed the SA46T/SA46T-AS Datacenter Solutions, a technology enabling datacenters to migrate smoothly from IPv4 to IPv6. This technology is based on SA46T, which makes it possible to ...
Hardware
Jun 12, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- University of Utah physicists developed an inexpensive, highly accurate magnetic field sensor for scientific and possibly consumer uses based on a “spintronic” organic thin-film semiconductor that ...
General Physics
Jun 12, 2012
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) services are emerging in mobile devices, such as smartphones, equipped with an Internet connection.
Telecom
Jun 12, 2012
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A portable rescue stretcher to allow firefighters to more easily haul unconscious or injured people out of danger has been designed by a University of Derby student - with input from a county fire service.
Engineering
Jun 12, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer's lab at the University of Georgia in Athens. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A voltage signal preceding failure of bridges and other structures made of powder has been documented by three researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. Their findings, ...
