Windows Phone gains amid Apple-Android clash
Windows-powered smartphones made strong gains in the US market in early 2013, capturing third place, with Android and Apple at the top, a survey showed Monday.
View ArticleMelanin from Jurassic-era mollusk could lead to new tool for cancer diagnosis
(Phys.org) —In a world where things seem to change overnight, melanin seems to stay essentially the same for more than 160 million years, a new study has found. Melanin is the biological pigment that...
View ArticleExperiment provides indications of an extragalactic component of cosmic rays
It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend in the energy spectrum at high energies,...
View ArticleChimpanzees have five universal personality dimensions
While psychologists have long debated the core personality dimensions that define humanity, primate researchers have been working to uncover the defining personality traits for humankind's closest...
View ArticleRare stellar alignment offers opportunity to hunt for planets
(Phys.org) —NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
View ArticleKepler provides insights into unusual dwarf star
(Phys.org) —Astronomer John Gizis of the University of Delaware, working with data obtained by the Kepler mission, is studying a highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful flares that may hold clues to...
View ArticleResearchers discover a new way fish camouflage themselves in the ocean
Fish can hide in the open ocean by manipulating how light reflects off their skin, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The discovery could someday lead to the development of...
View ArticleEarth's Milky Way neighborhood gets more respect
(Phys.org) —Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research using the...
View ArticleResearchers discover how and where breast tumor cells become dormant and what...
(Phys.org) —The long-standing mystery behind dormant disseminated breast tumor cells and what activates them after years and even decades of latency may have been solved. Researchers with the U.S....
View ArticleEnzyme from wood-eating gribble could help turn waste into biofuel
Scientists have discovered a new enzyme that could prove an important step in the quest to turn waste (such as paper, scrap wood and straw) into liquid fuel. To do this they turned to the destructive...
View ArticleNew biomolecular archaeological evidence points to the beginnings of...
France is renowned the world over as a leader in the crafts of viticulture and winemaking—but the beginnings of French viniculture have been largely unknown, until now.
View ArticleDiet likely changed game for some hominids 3.5 million years ago
A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a "game changer" occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study led by...
View ArticleUS says Apple led 'deliberate' scheme on ebooks (Update 2)
A US government lawyer accused Apple Monday of concocting a deliberate scheme to fix prices of electronic books as the antitrust trial against the tech giant got underway.
View ArticleSwift satellite produces best ultraviolet maps of the nearest galaxies
(Phys.org) —Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds,...
View ArticleDense hydrogen in a new light
(Phys.org) —Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. The way it responds under extreme pressures and temperatures is crucial to our understanding of matter and the nature of hydrogen-rich...
View ArticleScientists find that Fukushima-derived radioactivity in seafood poses minimal...
(Phys.org) —In 2012, Nicholas Fisher a distinguished professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a...
View ArticleHow computers can learn better
Reinforcement learning is a technique, common in computer science, in which a computer system learns how best to solve some problem through trial-and-error. Classic applications of reinforcement...
View ArticleSolar plane lands in US Midwest after storms
The Solar Impulse, a single-person solar-powered aircraft piloted by a Swiss adventurer, landed in St. Louis, Missouri early Tuesday on the third leg of a transcontinental flight after over 21 hours in...
View ArticleHubble maps 3-D structure of ejected material around erupting star
(Phys.org) —A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.
View ArticleGeorgia Tech trio to reveal iOS test exploit at Black Hat
(Phys.org) —Apple's iOS devices such as smartphones are considered relatively secure, so when an Apple customer pays more for an Apple device with iOS there is that reassuring feeling of confidence...
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