Recently, a mysterious seed fern, Lepidopteris baodensis sp. nov., dating to more than 251 million years ago (Ma), was discovered at the Baijiagou of Baode, Shanxi, China, from the Upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation. This discovery completely changed the understanding of the stratigraphic distribution of the genus Lepidopteris in China and promoted the taxonomic study of [...]

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting. Read more here

Student research at Ohio State could play a role in creating lighter-weight, more environmentally sustainable cars and trucks. Read more here

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting. Read more here

Feature sensitive re-sampling of point set surfaces is an important and challenging task in many computer graphics and geometric modeling applications. In Vol. 55 of Science China Information Sciences, an adaptive re-sampling framework for point set surfaces, including a naive sampling step by index propagation and a novel cluster optimization step by normalized rectification, is [...]

A mysterious seed fern, Lepidopteris, with its entire epidermal structure of subepidermal swellings, was recently discovered from the Upper Permian of Shanxi, China. The fossil dates to more than 251 million years ago. The study of the genus Lepidopteris is very important to understand the mass extinction and recovery from Late Permian to Triassic. See [...]

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting. Read more here

Student research at Ohio State could play a role in creating lighter-weight, more environmentally sustainable cars and trucks. Read more here

Student research at Ohio State could play a role in creating lighter-weight, more environmentally sustainable cars and trucks. Read more here

It’s a travel sweepstakes with a twist: Flightfox.com asks users to find the lowest fares for other travelers planning trips — and gives a finder’s fee to the winner. Read more here

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting. Read more here

Is it really true there are only 100 cod left in the North Sea? Read more here

Student research at Ohio State could play a role in creating lighter-weight, more environmentally sustainable cars and trucks. Read more here

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting. Read more here

A council in London is trying out a new way of helping people with dementia. Read more here

The European Space Agency says its cargo craft has successfully undocked from the International Space Station after a failed separation caused by communication problems earlier in the week. Read more here

Living systems are made of complex architectural organization of various cell types in defined microenvironments. The intricate interactions between different cell types control the specific functions of the associated tissues, such as the functions of native liver and cardiac tissues, metastasis and invasion of tumors, and embryonic development. Read more here

Simple surgery could endanger the lives of all on board a spacecraft if blood droplets get into cabin. A zero-gravity tool could help Read more here

Simple surgery could endanger the lives of all on board a spacecraft if blood droplets get into cabin. A zero-gravity tool could help Read more here

(Phys.org)—Fans call it the first "electric super car" for a reason. The UK-built on Thursday smashed the UK electric car land-speed record, topping 151 mph. The Nemesis was at an airfield near York, completing two runs over a one-mile distance. First the driver set a new record-breaking speed of 148 mph and then went on [...]

New York’s mayor says the city will wheel out the world’s biggest Ferris wheel in 2015, overtaking the current record holder in Singapore and leaving the London Eye in the dust. Read more here

For students seeking to become cyber warriors, the US government has a sweet deal. Read more here

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’s stock rallied sharply Friday a day after reporting a narrower-than-expected loss, as analysts debated whether the smartphone maker is poised for a rebound. Read more here

Google trimmed news "badges" and more as part of year-long house cleaning aimed at sweeping out unpopular, outdated or unneeded features at its online properties. Read more here

US regulators voted Friday to begin a process to reallocate some of the broadcast spectrum to meet surging demand from smartphones, tablets and other devices that use the wireless Internet. Read more here

(AP)—China has launched a second satellite built for Venezuela’s government. Read more here

The National Hurricane Center issued their last advisory on Miriam on Sept. 27 at 11 p.m. EDT when it became a remnant low pressure area. At that time, the center of post-tropical cyclone Miriam was located near latitude 22.0 north and longitude 116.7 west, just over 400 miles west of the southern tip of Baja [...]

The entire Gulf region is reliant on desalination technology to get most of its water but it’s an energy inefficient process. Read more here

The entire Gulf region is reliant on desalination technology to get most of its water but it’s an energy inefficient process. Read more here

Infrared data from NASA’s Aqua satellite today, Sept. 28, revealed strong convection and thunderstorms have built up again in Tropical Storm Nadine as it moved over warm waters in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. That convection strengthened Nadine back into a hurricane today. Nadine has lasted over two weeks, but is nowhere near breaking the record [...]

There are a number of things happening under the hood of Tropical Storm Ewiniar’s clouds that have been deciphered by satellite data today, Sept. 28, 2012, and NASA’s TRMM satellite has noticed one area of heavy rainfall remaining. Read more here

Arianespace has launched two satellites from the South American country of French Guiana that will provide telecommunication services to the Eastern Hemisphere. Read more here

(AP)—An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. Read more here

Commercially available sensors monitor fetuses and then use a smartphone to transmit the data back to a hospital Read more here

The problems with Apple’s new mobile maps were embarrassing, but the company has a tendency to bungle services that rely heavily on the Internet. Read more here

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

The problems with Apple’s new mobile maps were embarrassing, but the company has a tendency to bungle services that rely heavily on the Internet. Read more here

A new study suggests that increasing the amount of sleep that teenagers get could improve their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes. Read more here

Julio M. Pow-Sang, M.D., chair of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Department of Genitourinary Oncology, and colleagues have published two prostate cancer articles in the September issue of JNCCN — The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. The articles review and clarify recent updates made to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s guidelines for the screening and [...]

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

The problems with Apple’s new mobile maps were embarrassing, but the company has a tendency to bungle services that rely heavily on the Internet. Read more here

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

The problems with Apple’s new mobile maps were embarrassing, but the company has a tendency to bungle services that rely heavily on the Internet. Read more here

The Federal Communications Commission approved a process to pay television broadcasters to give up airwaves that would then be auctioned to cellphone companies. Read more here

The Federal Communications Commission approved a process to pay television broadcasters to give up airwaves that would then be auctioned to cellphone companies. Read more here

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

A teenager describes how, hooked by a photograph of a boy in a monster suit and the prospect of a job, she was defrauded of nearly $3,000. Read more here

The Federal Communications Commission approved a process to pay television broadcasters to give up airwaves that would then be auctioned to cellphone companies. Read more here

Rocky outcrops spotted by NASA’s rover are being hailed as strong evidence of fast-flowing water on the Red Planet. But how can we be so sure? Read more here

The Federal Communications Commission approved a process to pay television broadcasters to give up airwaves that would then be auctioned to cellphone companies. Read more here

Scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography have made the first observation of a predator avoidance behavior by a species of phytoplankton, a microscopic marine plant. Susanne Menden-Deuer, associate professor of oceanography, and doctoral student Elizabeth Harvey made the unexpected observation while studying the interactions between phytoplankton and zooplankton. Read more [...]

White sharks, the largest predatory sharks in the ocean, are thought of as apex predators that feed primarily on seals and sea lions. But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows surprising variability in the dietary preferences of individual sharks. Read more here

The rules would let television broadcasters be paid to voluntarily give up some of their public airwaves, which would then be auctioned to cellphone companies for wireless Internet service. Read more here

A security researcher says cell phones equipped with Google’s Android operating system are at risk of being disabled or wiped clean of their data, including contacts, music, and photos. Read more here

(AP)—At the nation’s community colleges, more than half of students are forced to take classes in basic math and English, skills that they should have learned years ago. Read more here

(AP)—U.S. banks have been buffeted by more than week of powerful cyberattacks whose perpetrators remain unknown. Read more here

Google has blocked a YouTube video that allegedly slanders a mayoral candidate in Brazil after losing a court battle that saw its local head of operations briefly arrested. Read more here

Super Typhoon Jelawat is a large and powerful storm that has been bringing very rough seas to areas in the western North Pacific. NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the monster storm and captured a visible image as it nears the big island of Japan. Read more here

Sergey Aleynikov charged with stealing highly confidential software that powers high-frequency trading systems. Read more here

The sun erupted with a wide, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 27, 2012 at 10:25 p.m. EDT. CMEs are a phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later, affecting electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research [...]

Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs and other military ordnance that were dumped decades ago in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats to shipping lanes and the 4,000 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf, warns two Texas A&M [...]

Nissan is offering cheap leases and big discounts on the Leaf because of slow U.S. sales of the all-electric car. Read more here

Philippine authorities said Friday they had launched a nationwide investigation into Catholic devotees collecting religious figures made of "blood" ivory smuggled from Africa. Read more here

(AP)—Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the U.S. military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions. Read more here

Tadpole shrimp are pests of rice production systems in California and have recently been found impacting Missouri and Arkansas rice fields. The shrimp feed on rice seedlings and uproot them during foraging, and their foraging behavior causes water to become muddy, which reduces light penetration to submerged seedlings and delays the development of the rice [...]

(Phys.org)—University of Illinois researchers have a new low-cost method to carve delicate features onto semiconductor wafers using light – and watch as it happens. Read more here

A new partnership between virtual Android specialist BlueStacks and microchip maker AMD will see much of the Google Play store’s stock of apps made available to Windows users running AMD hardware, the company announced Thursday. Read more here

The rules would let television broadcasters to be paid to voluntarily give up some of their public airwaves, which would then be auctioned to cellphone companies for wireless Internet service. Read more here

Minecraft’s Markus "Notch" Persson accuses Microsoft of "trying to ruin the PC as an open platform". Read more here

Complaints and jokes about Apple’s new maps have not stopped since the company released iOS 6 last week, a software update that replaced Google’s maps with its own. Now the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, is apologizing. Read more here

Kansas City emerges as a winner for wireless broadband, as RootMetrics helps us break down the top 4G LTE cities in the U.S. by carrier. Read more here

Cisco releases nine security advisories addressing bugs in two of its most important platforms. Exploitation of the individual vulnerabilities could result in denial of service conditions, interface queue wedges or Border Gateway Protocol session resets. Read more here

The apple flea weevil, a sporadic insect pest in the early 1900s, has reemerged as a severe pest in organic apple orchards in Michigan, where outbreak population levels have been observed since 2008, and damage has resulted in up to 90% losses for apple growers. Read more here

A major alpine transit route through western Austria was partially shut to traffic on Friday, as part of a protest against excessive heavy transport and resulting pollution. Read more here

The rules would let television broadcasters to be paid to voluntarily give up some of their public airwaves, which would then be auctioned to cellphone companies for wireless Internet service. Read more here

Research in Motion said its net loss for the latest quarter was $235 million, a comedown from a year ago but an improvement on the previous quarter. Its shares surged after hours. Read more here

Kodak said Friday that it plans to stop selling consumer inkjet printers and will eliminate 200 more jobs than previously projected as it requested more time to submit its framework for emerging from bankruptcy protection. Read more here

(Phys.org)—An international research team has created unique photoluminescent nanoparticles that shine clearly through more than 3 centimeters of biological tissue—a depth that makes them a promising tool for deep-tissue optical bioimaging. Read more here

Complaints and jokes about Apple’s new maps have not stopped since the company released iOS 6 last week, a software update that replaced Google’s maps with its own. Now the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, is apologizing. Read more here

AMD’s AppZone taps BlueStacks tech to bring popular Android apps to PCs. What does that mean for Microsoft’s new Windows app marketplace? Read more here

Ocean is the far frontier for rugged individualists, aka seasteaders, who want to build floating cities at sea Read more here

Mozilla system promises Web authentication without site-specific passwords. User’s browser will generate a cryptographic ‘identity assertion’ that expires after a few minutes. Read more here

A female whale put down in Northumberland was a rare Sei whale and showed evidence of starvation, experts say. Read more here

Investors have turned skeptical on Groupon, growth has slowed, and hundreds of would-be competitors have disappeared from the crowded daily-deal landscape, but that doesn’t mean a fadeout to the era of the discounted restaurant meal or manicure. Read more here

Norwegian researchers are the world’s first to develop a method for producing semiconductors from graphene. This finding may revolutionize the technology industry. Read more here

The looming "sequestration," across-the-board budget cuts that were never really meant to happen, could cripple key areas of science by slashing federal investment in research and development by an estimated 8.4 percent between now and 2017. That is not good for science, but it is also bad for an economy whose growth is driven by [...]

Complaints and jokes about Apple’s new maps have not stopped since the company released iOS 6 last week, a software update that replaced Google’s maps with its own. Now the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, is apologizing. Read more here

Federal regulations intended to curb the collection of data from young Internet users without their parents’ permission might cause companies to stop creating child-centric sites. Read more here

Evolutionary algorithms boost optical performance Read more here

In order to assemble novel biomolecular machines, individual protein molecules must be installed at their site of operation with nanometer precision. Ludwig Maximilian University researchers have now found a way to do just that. Green light on protein assembly. Read more here

(Phys.org)—Quantum dots are nanostructures of semiconducting materials that behave a lot like single atoms and are very easy to produce. Given their special properties, researchers see huge potential for quantum dots in technological applications. Before this can happen, however, we need a better understanding of how the electrons "trapped" inside them behave. Dresden physicists have [...]

During the Great Recession, families of all economic classes have felt the pinch. They have lost incomes and assets, and some families are worse off than others. A new series of reports from researchers at the University of Kansas examines families’ economic instability over a 25-year period leading up to the Great Recession, between 1984 [...]

(Phys.org)—In certain toy racecar tracks, sneaky players can flip a switch, trapping their opponents’ vehicles in a loop of track. Cells employ a less subtle approach: they change the track’s layout. In a study published online today in Science, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Oxford University discovered that, by forming or [...]

A leading expert on intellectual property and consumer rights at The Australian National University has called for a range of legislative and regulatory changes to help stop unjustified price discrimination against Australian consumers of digital products. Read more here

(Phys.org)—Humanity has landed a rover on Mars. Now, say scientists, it’s time to land a boat on Titan. This outlandish scenario could become reality, according to engineers presenting their proposals at the European Planetary Science Congress on 27 September. Read more here

(Phys.org)—Preliminary data from the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, presented at the European Planetary Science Conference on 28 September, indicate that the Gale Crater landing site might be drier than expected. Read more here

(Phys.org)—By analyzing the genes of bacteria, University of Florida researchers have moved a step closer to pinpointing how two brain disorders common in small-breed dogs occur. Read more here

As they traveled from the east coast of Canada to the northern shore of South America, Akpik, Mackenzie, Pingo and Taglu stunned researchers and the global conservation community by flying some 2,500 miles out to sea, through the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, a migration route that has never before been documented. Read more here

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has uncovered how a molecular parasite responsible for playing a role in antibiotic-resistant disease, such as MRSA, can replicate and spread ability to cause disease, according to a new study published online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more here