Like a fishing net, a new website, created by a Simon Fraser University archaeologist and a multimedia consultant, captures viewers and draws them into an interactive multimedia window onto Pacific herring's past, present ...
Ecology
May 5, 2014
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Led by engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and supported by Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., ALHAT technology will provide planetary landers similar ...
Space Exploration
May 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Climate scientists have long documented the strong control of Earth's orbital variations on the waxing and waning of the great ice ages, when huge "pluvial" lakes filled the valley floors of the Great Basin. ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2014
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Target's CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.
Business
May 5, 2014
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As our cars, phones and computers get "smarter" they – and the companies that provide them – know a lot more about us than they used to.
Engineering
May 5, 2014
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The Australian federal government's recently published National Commission of Audit's recommendation 62: e-Government suggests the government accelerate its transition to online service delivery that:
Other
May 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists studying graphene's properties are using a new mathematical framework to make extremely accurate characterizations of the two-dimensional material's shape.
Nanomaterials
May 5, 2014
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Researchers in the US are capitalising on the falling cost of TFT-based flat panel display manufacture to produce inexpensive, flexible large area neutron detectors to help monitor the movement of fissile materials.
Engineering
May 5, 2014
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A team of Galactic archaeologists has uncovered new insights into the formation of the earliest stars and galaxies by observing the chemical signatures of ancient 'fossil' stars present in the outer and inner halos encircling ...
Astronomy
May 5, 2014
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Standing on the red, impact-scarred surface of Mars was the childhood dream of many grown-up scientists, but few have experienced a space adventure quite like Ross Lockwood.
Space Exploration
May 5, 2014
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