(AP) -- Xerox said its fourth-quarter earnings dipped 5 percent from a year ago, largely due to the costs of restructuring. A tepid outlook and the departure of long-time Chief Financial Officer Lawrence A. Zimmerman sent ...
Business
Jan 26, 2011
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Not all trout are created equal. Those swimming up the streams of British Columbia might resemble their cousins from Quebec, yet their genetic makeup is regionally affected and has an impact on how they reproduce, grow and ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2011
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A perimeter-protection system created by a team from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering took Best Paper prize at the IEEE Homeland Security Conference in November 2010, and is now moving to deployment at a Florida airport, ...
Engineering
Jan 26, 2011
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Gallium nitride (GaN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are among the most technologically relevant semiconducting materials. Gallium nitride is ubiquitous today in optoelectronic elements such as blue lasers (hence the blue-ray disc) ...
Nanophysics
Jan 26, 2011
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The temperature of water situated in the subtropical Atlantic experienced a drop of 0.15 C between 1998 and 2006. This has been revealed by a study led by the IEO (Spanish Oceanography Institute) which suggests that circulation ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To combat last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf ...
Environment
Jan 26, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to develop next-generation electric vehicles, solar energy systems, and other clean energy technologies, researchers need an efficient way to store the energy. One of the key energy storage devices ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study at the University of Sydney shows for the first time that larger social groups make faster, safer and more accurate decisions.
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2011
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Black holes are probably not afraid of their shadows. They'd swallow them if they could.
Mathematics
Jan 26, 2011
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UK's University of Hertfordshire astronomers have measured the distances to 11 of the coolest objects ever discovered outside our solar system. The 11 cool objects – known as brown dwarfs – have masses intermediate ...
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2011
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