Of the things users expect their cell phones to be -- address book, calendar, camera, music player -- a wallet isn't one of them, according to research by a Kansas State University marketing professor.
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2010
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A new paper by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Otago in New Zealand shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top.
Evolution
Feb 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Immigration is a long-simmering issue in the politics of many countries, including the United States. A 2007 Pew poll found that three-quarters of all U.S. citizens want to further restrict immigration. But ...
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2010
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Scientists are reporting the first-ever data to show that the enzyme calcineurin is critical in controlling normal development and function of heart cells, and that loss of the protein leads to heart problems and death in ...
Biochemistry
Feb 19, 2010
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A cocktail of compounds emitted by the beneficial fungus Muscodor albus may offer a biologically based way to fumigate certain crops and rid them of destructive pests. That's the indication from Agricultural Research Service ...
Ecology
Feb 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Science writers know as well as anyone how much information a diagram can contain. We often labor to express in words what a researcher was able to convey in a single image. But while a drawing can be rich ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley astronomers and their team of planetary paparazzi have garnered the 2009 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for the most outstanding paper published ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2010
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One of the challenges of using nanoparticles for imaging tumors during surgery is that there needs to be a tradeoff between the number of nanoparticles that target a tumor and the rapid clearance of any unbound nanoparticles ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The launch of ESA's CryoSat-2 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, scheduled for 25 February, has been delayed due to a concern related to the second stage steering engine of the Dnepr launcher.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists led by Ken Suslick from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, have developed a coffee analyzer than can distinguish between ten well-known commercial brands of coffee and can ...
