While baseball fans still rank "The Catch" by Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series as one of the greatest baseball moments of all times, scientists see the feat as more of a puzzle: How does an outfielder get to the right place at the right time to catch a fly ball? Thousands of fans (and...
A second high-profile paper in as many months has found an important role in learning and memory for calpain, a molecule whose academic fortunes have ebbed and flowed for 25 years. USC's Michel Baudry (then at the University of California, Irvine) and Gary Lynch (UC Irvine) first pointed to...
A second high-profile paper in as many months has found an important role in learning and memory for calpain, a molecule whose academic fortunes have ebbed and flowed for 25 years. USC's Michel Baudry (then at the University of California, Irvine) and Gary Lynch (UC Irvine) first pointed to...
Why do we chew our food? Research has shown that it is not, as has long been presumed, to make chunks of food small enough to swallow without choking. Biomechanics, who have modelled the cohesive strength of food after a certain amount of chewing, have shown that we actually chew our food to...
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that our solar system is crossing a cloud of interstellar hell. One that shouldn't be there at all. Intergalactic plot to keep us isolated or cosmic event? Voyager got the answer.
Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong...
On a text i recieved it has a purple dash or slash symbol across the picture of an envelope that indicates a new text Anyone know why this message has this mysterious symbol?
On a text i recieved it has a purple dash or slash symbol across the picture of an envelope that indicates a new text Anyone know why this message has this mysterious symbol?
I have an HP dv2000 Pavilion laptop. Last year my keyboard randomly stopped working. I tried everything to get it back: restoring my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers. Everyone I talked to didn't know how to solve the problem. Then one day, just as randomly, the keyboard started...
In the 1800s', dinosaurs roamed the universe. A little boy named Tommy saw a dinosaur approach him. He was little and had no strength. He didn't use any weapons and no one was there but him. He killed the dinosaur. How did he do that? Remember: no one else besides him and the dinosaur, the...
Mozilla's CEO says an iPhone app is due within a few weeks, and that it'll "surprise people." I mean, that's neat and all, but the most exciting possibility—Firefox—would be the least surprising. So, uh, what is it?
Om Malik's got a little embryo of a theory, and it revolves around Mozilla's...