Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky Survey
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky today.
Astronomy
Jan 14, 2010
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Bee research shows benefits of native plants, wild bees
(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists struggle to come to grips with Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious disease threatening to wipe out domesticated honey bees in the United States, they have begun to cast a worried eye towards ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2010
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Intel outlook points to PC industry recovery
(AP) -- Intel's fourth-quarter earnings breezed past Wall Street's expectations, and its rosy profit outlook for 2010 was another sign that a lasting recovery for the recession-battered personal computer market is under way.
Business
Jan 14, 2010
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Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over.
Astronomy
Jan 14, 2010
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A blank slate for techies' dreams; the impending release of the 'Apple tablet' has fueled all manner of speculation
It's the most eagerly awaited tablet since Moses. As with the tablets handed down from on high, no one knows what's on it. Or even what it is. They know only that it's coming.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 14, 2010
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Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are still ...
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010
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Rosetta 'Alice' spectrometer reveals Earth's ultraviolet fingerprint in Earth flyby
On Nov. 13, the European Space Agency's comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist on the way to humankind's first rendezvous to orbit and study a comet in more detail than ...
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010
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NASA Technology to Enhance 'Green' Building's Efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today announced that it is collaborating with Integrated Building Solutions (IBS), Inc. to develop a next-generation intelligent, automated, and integrated environmental monitoring and management capability ...
Engineering
Jan 14, 2010
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Phones have TV signals, TVs have Internet feeds, computers have a bit of everything
"Convergence" is too bulky a word to do justice to all the pretty gadgets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, or to describe how they are increasingly doing more to give consumers the content and connectivity wherever ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 14, 2010
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Harnessing the Divas of the Nanoworld
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) are the divas of the nanoworld. In possession of alluring properties, they are also notoriously temperamental compared to their carbon-based cousins.
Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2010
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