If you live in one of the dozen or so European countries with an up and running 4Gmobile network, you may have already bought a 4G-enabled phone, hoping to enjoy the blisteringly fast data rates your operator is advertising. ...
Telecom
Mar 4, 2013
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Before a photovoltaic installation may be constructed, engineers calculate, for some selected days in the year, when and where the interfering light reflections occur, especially if airports, highways or larger residential ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 4, 2013
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Cutting down rainforest to create oil-palm plantations causes canopy-dwelling ant populations to break up into mutually-exclusive territories with very little overlap, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Physicists William Irvine and Dustin Kleckner of the University of Chicago, have for the first time, created a knotted vortex in a fluid. They describe how they printed 3D airfoils and then accelerated them ...
Waves slam the shore with the force of a jetliner screaming at 600 mph. Yet mussels - small but mighty denizens of the intertidal zone - still manage to cling tenaciously to their rocks.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2013
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Despite the Washington Department of Fish &Wildlife shooting of seven wolves last summer because they were killing cattle, the state's population is burgeoning, a new survey shows.
Ecology
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org) —It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67. Set against a backdrop of bright stars, the rust-colored object lies in the constellation ...
Astronomy
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has tested a caravan of self driving trucks. They put four trucks on the road, with the first truck driven by a human, followed by ...
Tensions are building between the struggling U.S. offshore wind industry and the federal agency that oversees it.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 4, 2013
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Nearly two-thirds of American voters believe that human population growth is driving other animal species to extinction and that if the situation gets worse, society has a "moral responsibility to address the problem," according ...
Ecology
Mar 4, 2013
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