The mutation responsible for the alcohol flush reaction, an unpleasant response to alcohol that is relatively common in people of Asian descent, may have occurred following the domestication of rice. Researchers writing in ...
Evolution
Jan 19, 2010
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Samsung Electronics and Rambus reached a 900-million-dollar settlement on Tuesday to patent claims filed against the South Korean giant by the US memory chip company.
Business
Jan 19, 2010
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More than 4.2 billion dollars was spent on mobile phone applications last year with Apple grabbing over 99 percent of the growing market, according to research firm Gartner.
Business
Jan 19, 2010
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The centuries old game of curling is being put under the scrutiny of 21st century technology in a bid to help Canada's best curlers throw their way to gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Engineering
Jan 19, 2010
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Nearly half of the users of Google News skim the headlines at the news aggregator site without clicking through to newspaper websites, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Internet
Jan 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of New Mexico have established a new low in temperature cooling through laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures. Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team led by UNM Professor, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka Long Baseline Neutrino ...
General Physics
Jan 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ecovative. It's a word that may not have made it to your Webster's yet, but it has made it to 21st century design and technology. Ecovative is a movement, actually, that employs naturally available materials ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab cosmologists were part of an international team that has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving ...
Astronomy
Jan 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most humans are blissfully unaware that we owe our healthful existence to trillions of microbes that make their home in the nooks and crannies of the human body, primarily the gut.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2010
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