"Most people either love or hate the iPhone's touch screen, and based on a report on the LA Times, women with long fingernails are among the haters. Why? Well, since the iPhone's touchscreen only responds to...
"Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos By Jenna Wortham June 09, 2008 | 5:37:20 PMCategories: Advertising, Video, Viral, Web/Tech YouTube videos that show a group of friends...
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"A second eruption occurred on the evening of 13 May from a fissure that opened NE of the SE crater, about 800m long. Catania airport had to be closed because of ash emission from Etna. Apart from the emission of...
Consumers concerned with the health of the environment may begin to turn to a special label on various food and home items to tell them critical information on the item's carbon footprint."Supermaket chain Tesco has...
The bovine belch has never been so lucrative."STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will participate...
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Human ear cannot detect sounds that have frequencies lower than 20 Hz (infrasounds) or over 20 kHz (called ultrasounds). That's why some species may appear quite silent for us, while in fact they are very noisy... We only lack their hearing to figure this out.1.Dolphins and...
"The volcano had produced 20 tremors and released 80-meter to 200-meter-long white-grey smoke plumes every hour over the past three days (Oct 24-26), Sigin, an officer assigned to keep a watch, said on Friday.
In a...
""Atmospheric carbon dioxide growth has increased 35 percent faster than expected since 2000," said a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), one of the bodies involved in the research.
Inefficient use of...
"It's always by your side, and when it's not, you are chatting away with it by your ear. Cell phones have made keeping in touch much easier, but what are they doing to your health?
A new study by Italian researchers finds that the electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones...