Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded Colorado State University researchers are trying to solve computationally difficult problems related to logistics planning, vehicle routing, resource allocation, circuit design, ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 19, 2010
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Showcasing its energy research initiatives for an Earth Day event on April 22 at the Pentagon, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will highlight the microbial fuel cell, a device that could revolutionize naval energy use ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2010
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A team from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy fired light particles, or photons, into a tiny tower of semi-conducting material. A photon collides with an electron confined in an even smaller structure within ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 19, 2010
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Researchers at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Spain) have studied how older people interact and use email in their daily life. The study was carried out in social centres in Barcelona and will be used to design new email ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2010
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The fifth Howler Monkey census at the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island research station in Panama, organized by Katie Milton, professor in the department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2010
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Russian scientists acknowledged Monday that solar research satellite Koronas-Foton has been lost due to technical problems, barely a year after its launch.
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the basic components of a functional, cooperative society is a code of law, where the laws are usually enforced by some kind of incentive. Social incentives can either be positive (rewards) or negative ...
(AP) -- Two factories that make Microsoft Corp. products in southern China violated overtime regulations and failed to properly register the use of workers aged 16 to 18, officials said Monday.
Business
Apr 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some nanoparticles are more precious than gold, so being able to recycle them would offer manufacturers important cost savings. Professor Julian Eastoe at the University of Bristol, and colleagues, report ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2010
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Mexico's president Felipe Calderon has made a military campaign against the country's ascendant drug-trafficking gangs the centerpiece of his presidency. After thousands of fatalities, many of them due to retaliatory strikes ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2010
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