Tiny particles of pollutants in the lower atmosphere have a striking effect on cloud anvils, which are created by thunderstorms. That's the conclusion of a team of atmospheric scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2010
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A spectacular stick-insect, a rare specimen of which is looked after at the Natural History Museum, is in a top 10 new species of the decade list.
Plants & Animals
Dec 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a causal link between mysterious, periodic signals from Saturn's magnetic field and explosions of hot ionized gas, known as plasma, around ...
Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2010
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Shares in French computer services consultancy Atos Origin leapt Wednesday in response to a deal with German giant Siemens targeted at creating the "European leader" in the sector.
Business
Dec 15, 2010
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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday beat WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to be crowned Time magazine's "person of the year" -- even though the weekly's own readers thought it should be the other way around.
Business
Dec 15, 2010
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(AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will spend at least one more night in a British prison, after court officials said Wednesday that an appeal against the decision to grant him bail would not be heard for at least ...
Internet
Dec 15, 2010
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400 researchers from around the world are taking part in the study, which will collect 70,000 air, water and plankton samples. Over a period of seven months the oceanographic research vessels Hesperides and Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2010
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A research team comprising NPL, the University of Edinburgh and IBM's Watson Research Center have published research about the structure of an HIV-1 protein.
Biochemistry
Dec 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Significant experimental and theoretical work has been devoted to the electronic, structural and superconducting properties of calcium (Ca) at high pressure.
Condensed Matter
Dec 15, 2010
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China's Internet censors may have kept most of the nation's 420 million web users from accessing Facebook, but they have not stopped social game developers like Ellison Gao.
Internet
Dec 15, 2010
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