Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
GOD, CHRIST: QUESTIONS & FAITH (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
"Well, what did you expect? The Turin Shroud for the mother board?" proclaims the front page of Tech Digest. "Hail to the world's ugliest most expensive MacBook Air" laptop computer. The use of "Turin Shroud" as a metaphor for expensive...
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Remember the movies of clouds floating above the Phoenix Lander? Further study with the lander's Lidar instrument has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. "The clouds are composed of ice crystals, and some of the crystals are large enough to fall through the atmosphere," said Jim Whiteway, lead scientist for the Meteorological Station on [...]
Charles & Marie: Modern Living (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Sale! Sale! Now that we have your attention: Design Within Reach is having a lighting sale — with free shipping — which lasts until MIDNIGHT tomorrow. My favorite chandelier, the Cellula, is on sale but at $1,980.00 (Was: $2,200.00) it’s still too high for me. Crafted out of of Swarovski crystals, it refracts the light [...]
Photonics.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
An optical physicist who demonstrated that power can be transmitted wirelessly, a physicist who explores the mysterious behavior of quantum systems, a
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Indisputably Austria's best known export for the fashion world, Swarovski is today present around the globe through its cut crystal.
Physical Review Focus (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
When moved across a surface, some nanoscale metallic islands show frictional resistance, while others do not, adding new support to a theory that attributes friction to trapped impurity atoms. Image: D. Dietzel & A. Schirmeisen/Univ. of Münster
Live Science (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Doctors blame sedentary lifestyle, obesity, poor diet
Hindu (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
“Phenomenon occurs because of presence of ice crystals in high altitude thin clouds”
Gizmodiva.com (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Everyone loves blue-tooth headsets, they leave your hands free to do other things while you talk away or tap your feet to your favorite music. Motorola usually comes up with super stylish ones, if you can remember the ones...
Siliconera (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The next episode of the multi-part mobile epilogue to Final Fantasy IV takes players back to the moon that shot out of orbit during the ending. Despite what FuSoYa said at the end of Final Fantasy IV the Lunarians do more than sleep. A man in black is ...
How to of the Day (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
How can ice freeze without bringing it to freezing temperature? Make instant hot ice, of course. Impossible? Possible! By making crystals melt in hot water and letting the solution cool off, you can keep the crystals in liquid form until you "trigger" the solidification with your finger. The mixture looks like ice and, because the transition from liquid to solid is exothermic, the ice releases heat!...
The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
"Johnny Get Angry" - k.d. lang : He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) - Hole : These two songs were singles in 1962 and 1963, by Joanie Sommers and The Crystals . Both are good songs, although both are difficult from a modern perspective, even given the - unverified, but plausible, explanation, " Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote the song after discovering that singer Little Eva was being regularly...
Science Now (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Simulations rendered in laser light and cold atoms could someday crack mystery of high-temperature superconductivity
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Siliguri, Sept. 10: A halo around the sun seen from Siliguri this morning triggered curiosity as well as rumours as it coincided with the start of the Big Bang experiment in Geneva.
