 Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers' September 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday. | |
First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ... | |
Unlocking the secret of the Kondo Effect September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing ... | |
 Is This The HTC Dream- Android or An Anamorphic Inside Joke September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The Dream by HTC seems headed to T-Mobile. Dream will be the first Google Android mobile device to hit the US market and mystery surrounds its actual appearance. Some spy-shots appeared out of nowhere and ... | |
 Scientists create world's thinnest balloon, just 1 atom thick September 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gases ... | |
 A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. ... | |
100 million years AD September 26, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Jan Zalasiewicz, a lecturer in geology at the University of Leicester, has published a new study looking at the lasting impression made by mankind -100 million years hence. He takes the perspective of alien ... | |
 Researchers discover unexpected properties of materials in lowermost mantle September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth's internal processes, a team of researchers has discovered. | |
 Scientists find black hole 'missing link' September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Scientists at Durham University have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes. | |
Flexi display technology is now October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological ... | |
Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent, researchers say October 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states, according ... | |
 Worlds in collision September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of ... | |
 Going with the flow: Scientists solve 100-year-old engineering problem September 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a car accelerates up and down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates additional ... | |
 A dark matter disk in our Galaxy September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers ... | |
Whale songs are heard for the first time around New York City waters September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the ... | |
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