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SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Physorg -- Time, as we all know, is relative: good experiences seem to fly by, whereas bad ones seem to drag on forever. "After two hours, I looked at my watch," a reviewer of Wagnerian opera is said to have written. "I found that 17 minutes had gone by." In.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 2:47pm neoform

Physorg -- Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords. Like a "411" for the Internet, Who.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 1:38am neoform

Physorg -- An asteroid discovered three years ago could be a threat in 2029 when it crosses Earth's orbit, a Russian astronomer said Monday. Boris Shustov, director of the Institute of Astronomy, said at a forum that the Apophis asteroid could have a bigger impa.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 3:52am neoform

Physorg -- It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sat Sep 29, 2007 @ 10:04am neoform

Physorg -- While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O scale, which is thought to be responsible for many of water�.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 9:43am neoform

Physorg -- Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes. Now scientists at Northwestern Univ.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

Physorg -- Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:18pm neoform

Physorg -- Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons. The research paves the way fo.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Physorg -- The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt. A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charl.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:38pm neoform

Physorg -- University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.” While earlier studies h.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 12:54pm neoform

Physorg -- Global warming and, ironically, its main cause -- fossil fuels -- explain the intensifying squabble to claim rights over the Arctic seabed. Around a quarter of the world's oil reserves are locked up below the Arctic Ocean, according to the US Geologica.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Sun Jul 22, 2007 @ 6:15pm neoform

Physorg -- A Florida woman gave birth to her own grandchildren through in vitro fertilization after her daughter was treated for cervical cancer. Ann Stolper, 59, of Delray Beach, gave birth in December to Itai and Maya Chomsky, the twin children of her daughter.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 10:41pm neoform

Physorg -- Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water skater—has optimized its use of surface t.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 2:00pm neoform

Physorg -- Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen University, has analysed the world’s oldest DNA,.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 10:09am neoform

Physorg -- Contrary to popular opinion, men are more likely to look at a female's face before other areas when looking at pictures of naked women, according to a study by Emory University researchers. And women will gaze at pictures of heterosexual sex longer than m.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:34pm neoform

Physorg -- Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060 in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem on Sunday. A famed rationalist, who secured a royal exemption from the ordina.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 10:49am neoform

Physorg -- The Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory reportedly breached national security by sending classified nuclear weapons information over the Internet. The e-mails resulted in "the loss of control of top-secret restricted data," Reps. John Dingell and Ba.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:58am neoform

Physorg -- Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding highest temperature? According to Moses.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

Physorg -- Scientists from Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, have recently published their research on the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone—the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device. Their results appea.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 9:37pm neoform

Physorg -- A survey of sleep-deprived teens finds they think that a later start time for school and tests given later in the school day would result in better grades. The survey was presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Sunday,.. Read More