More than half of US adults use Facebook: study
More than half of US adults use online social networking service Facebook, according to an upcoming study.
Internet
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Global water experiment will celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011
What may be the world's largest chemistry experiment in history launched last week as part of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. The American Chemical Society (ACS) announced it will help support teachers and students ...
Other
Mar 25, 2011
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New entropy battery pulls energy from difference in salinity between fresh water and seawater
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers, led by Dr. Yi Cui, of Stanford and Dr. Bruce Logan from Penn State University have succeeded in developing an entropy battery that pulls energy from the imbalance of salinity in fresh ...
Math meets music
Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University composer-theorist Clifton Callender, whose work explores and maps the mathematics of musical harmony.
Mathematics
Mar 25, 2011
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Review: Solid Nintendo 3DS could use fresher games
Whether you're watching a Hollywood action movie in an IMAX theater or college hoops on a 3-D TV, there's no denying the wow factor of current 3-D technology. And the trend isn't lost on video-game companies - particularly ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 25, 2011
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Study links forest health to salmon populations
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research paper written by Simon Fraser University biologists and published in the journal Science concludes that the abundance of salmon in spawning streams determines the diversity and productivity ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2011
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Girl Scout cookies go high-tech: Smartphone sales
(AP) -- The Girl Scouts were selling their cookies the old-fashioned way, pulling a creaky-wheeled red wagon laden with Thin Mints and Samoas down a suburban street. But the affair took a decidedly 21st-century twist when, ...
Other
Mar 25, 2011
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Imagining Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite of three artists' renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL artist; however, the landscape and the rendered shapes took into account what was known about Mars that year.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2011
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Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2011
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Size matters: Quantum dots could make solar panels more efficient
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles--quantum ...
Nanophysics
Mar 25, 2011
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