Foreclosed homes dot the American landscape — they make up about one in 12 houses with under $1 million left on the mortgage. These foreclosures drive down home prices, both because they add to the housing supply and because ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2010
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(AP) -- Finally, something for those guys who say they read Playboy for the articles: a chance to prove it.
Internet
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way a family interacts can have more of an impact on a child's predicted school success than reading, writing or arithmetic, according to a University of Notre Dame study published recently in the Journal ...
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Grains, vegetables and fruit taste delicious and are important sources of energy. However, humans cannot digest the main component of plants - the cellulose in the cell wall. Even in ruminants, animals that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining theoretical and experimental expertise in the United States, Japan, and France, a team of scientists determined that a water molecule (guest) is cradled inside a functional molecule (host), turning ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 20, 2010
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A UQ academic's research into whether nature or nurture influences the development of gut flora has been published in Nature and may hold the key to understanding obesity.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2010
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Everyone knows what it's like for an airplane to land: the slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon as the plane touches down, which seems to just barely bring it to ...
Engineering
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 20, 2010
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(AP) -- It's a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey halfway around the world - but is anyone at the controls?
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin has discovered that a 200-square-mile lake has formed in the Rio Grande Basin of northern Mexico, threatening residents of Starr County and ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2010
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