Wind-powered car completes 3,100 mile test ride across Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Score some points for the green set this week! In Australia a wind-powered car has completed a roughly three-week, 3,100 mile test ride.
16/02/2011
Global warming may reroute evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming may affect interactions between plants and the insects that eat them, altering the course of plant evolution, research at the University of Michigan ...
Evolution
Feb 16, 2011
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Research shows entire group of genes vanishing in the evolution of flowers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lena Hileman sought to discover how related plants could have developed vastly different flowers and pollination strategies.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2011
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Cable companies strike back at cord-cutting idea
(AP) -- Cable TV and other companies that provide subscription services are striking back at the notion that people are dropping their TV packages en masse to watch video over the Internet. Industry gains in the fourth quarter ...
Telecom
Feb 16, 2011
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Nvidia releases the Kal-El quad-core mobile chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has announced their brand new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new processor was given the interestingly superheroic name Kal-El. Just in case you did not ...
Violent storms on alien planets
Hundreds of planets have now been detected outside our solar system. So far, very little is known about the physical conditions on these fascinating objects. Kevin Heng from the Institute for Astronomy at ETH Zurich is attempting ...
Astronomy
Feb 16, 2011
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Save energy, money with Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt
The world's first LED replacement for a 60-watt incandescent bulb is now also the first to earn ENERGY STAR qualification. Philips Lighting announced today that the Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt (also sold professionally under ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 16, 2011
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Tuning the collective properties of artificial nanoparticle supercrystals
Precise ordering in two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) superlattices formed by the self-assembly of individual nanocrystals (NCs) allows for control of the magnetic, optical, and electronic coupling between ...
Nanophysics
Feb 16, 2011
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Aquatic carnivorous plants with ultra-fast traps studied
How do Utricularia, aquatic carnivorous plants commonly found in marshes, manage to capture their preys in less than a millisecond? A team of French physicists from the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique has identified ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2011
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NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Bingiza hugging the western Madagascar coastline
Infrared satellite data from NASA is showing some strong thunderstorms over west-central Madagascar today as Tropical Storm Bingiza continues to hug the western coast of the island nation.
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2011
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