Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability ...
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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Auroop Ganguly — an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who heads Northeastern’s Sustainability and Data Sciences Lab — explains how global climate change and extreme weather, such as ...
Environment
Mar 22, 2012
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With the U.S. economy on the mend, it’s interesting to note which cities and states are growing the fastest.
Economics & Business
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A superbly preserved 130-million-year-old crocodile skull, discovered at Swanage in Dorset in 2009, has been described as belonging to a species new to science in a paper by researchers at the University ...
Archaeology
Mar 22, 2012
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ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch to the International Space Station. ESA’s formal Launch Readiness Review on Monday revealed no problems with the vessel. Launch is set ...
Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Build a surface of titanium and oxygen atoms arranged just so, coat with water, and add sunshine. What do you get? In theory, energy-rich hydrogen produced by photolysis—a process by which water molecules ...
Materials Science
Mar 22, 2012
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The Graphene Research Group at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) reports on the synthesis of graphene by reducing graphene oxide using microorganisms extracted from a local river.
Nanomaterials
Mar 22, 2012
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For Tim Gutowski, advanced manufacturing is an opportunity not just to boost employment, but also to improve the environment.
Engineering
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As if Facebook has not has enough invasion-of-privacy problems, a pair of researchers have come up with one more reason why Facebook cannot rest. Shah Mahmood and Yvo Desmedt, Chair of Information Communication ...
