The government of Germany has announced that it will place more stringent demands on all immigrants in an effort to better integrate them into society. Since then, a growing debate about multiculturalism has brought to light ...
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2010
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This month’s G-20 meeting of industrialized countries was rife with talk of potential "currency wars," in which states try to devalue their currencies to help their economies. While a central tension is the United States’ ...
Economics & Business
Nov 15, 2010
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Last week, a Qantas Airbus 380 superjumbo jetliner made an emergency landing in Singapore following the mid-flight explosion of one of its engines that is manufactured by Rolls-Royce. All flights of Qantas’s A380 aircraft, ...
Engineering
Nov 15, 2010
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Montana State University researchers have discovered that baking soda can dramatically increase algae's production of the key oil precursors for biodiesel.
Materials Science
Nov 15, 2010
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A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans on Nov. 17.
Computer Sciences
Nov 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Japan are the first to have succeeded in converting information into free energy in an experiment that verifies the "Maxwell demon" thought experiment devised in 1867.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Terms like "giving the evil eye" and "right hand man" have been commonplace since the ancient Greeks realised that humans perceive their world very differently on the left and right sides of their body. Now ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists, including a scientist based at The University of Queensland, has recently closed an additional 'loophole' in a test explaining one of science's strangest phenomena -- ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 15, 2010
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Jon Carson, chief executive of charity auction site BiddingForGood, describes himself as a "data geek with a social bent."
Internet
Nov 15, 2010
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(AP) -- Astronomer Tycho Brahe uncovered some of the mysteries of the universe in the 16th century - and now modern-day scientists are delving into the mystery of his sudden death.
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2010
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