Colorado researchers have discovered and partially mapped a major urban center once occupied by the Purepecha of Mexico, a little-known people who fought the better-known Aztecs to a standstill and who controlled much of ...
Archaeology
Apr 14, 2010
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Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry has announced a strategy that calls for boosting eco-friendly vehicles' share of domestic new car sales to as high as 50 percent by 2020, from the current 9 percent.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 14, 2010
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(AP) -- Worldwide personal computer shipments increased more than 20 percent in the first three months of 2010 from the same period a year ago, a sign the PC business is on firmer ground after one of its shakiest stretches ...
Business
Apr 14, 2010
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A natural product found in both coconut oil and human breast milk - lauric acid -- shines as a possible new acne treatment thanks to a bioengineering graduate student from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 km above the surface of the Earth.
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2010
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Like much of the other containers and food scraps from the North Baltimore farm-to-table restaurant Woodberry Kitchen, the oyster shells don't go in the trash. The raw bar castoffs -- about 2,000 per week -- are sent to an ...
Environment
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests that jewel scarab beetles find each other -- and hide from their enemies -- using the same technology that creates the 3D effects for the blockbuster movie Avatar.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis researchers have confirmed a central idea about chromosome repair, more than a quarter century after it was first proposed. The finding is important to scientists who seek to understand DNA repair, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mom's trusty nose may be good, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have gone her one better by designing an instrument that quickly and precisely sniffs trace amounts of ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 14, 2010
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