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Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Intervention Disrupted by Waves

While seeking for the Japanese whaling fleet, the Sea Shepherd scout vessel Brigitte Bardot was severely damaged by a giant wave. The impact has cracked the hull and affected one of the pontoons of the vessel. This unfortunate incident will probably delay the anti-whaling intervention. Captain Paul Watson, boarde...

29 December 2011
08:45 GMT

Samsung to Pass 10M Sold Wave Phones This Year

About two years ago, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics unveiled to the world a new mobile operating system, called bada, which was loaded on a new series of handsets, dubbed 'Wave', now set to hit the 10 million sold units mark. Of course, the sales are slow when compared to the compa...

26 September 2011
18:51 GMT

Samsung Makes bada 2.0 Available

bada 2.0, the latest flavor of Samsung's own mobile operating system, is now officially available, roughly two years after the first devices running under the OS were launched on the market. Seven mobile phones are available at the moment with the bada platform on them, all coming from Samsung, and enjoying i...

25 August 2011
17:41 GMT

Samsung France's 2011 bada Phones Leaked

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is expected to bring to the market during the ongoing year new handsets that would be powered by its bada operating system, and some more info on two of them reportedly leaked into the wild.A recent article on bada World (via Samsung Hub) shows that Samsung has in store t...

11 April 2011
14:41 GMT

Samsung Brings 3 Wave Handsets to India, Along with Omnia 652

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the release of no less than four new devices on the market in India, including three Wave handsets, complemented by the Omnia 652, a Windows Mobile device.The three bada OS-based mobile phones launched on the market in India include the Wave 525, Wave 533 an...

24 November 2010
09:25 GMT

Samsung Sells Over 7M Galaxy S, 2M Wave Devices

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced its financial results for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and posted mobile phone sales of 71.4 million in the time frame. Moreover, the company unveiled sales figures for some of its most popular devices at the moment, the Samsung Galaxy S and Wav...

29 October 2010
13:38 GMT

Galaxy S and Wave Surpass 1 Million Sold Units Each

It seems that South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to bring two highly appealing handsets to the market during the ongoing year, namely the Samsung Wave and the Samsung Galaxy S. According to the latest news around the Internet, both handsets managed to top 1 million units sold within only several weeks s...

15 July 2010
17:41 GMT

Samsung Gives Waves to Developers, Plans More bada Phones

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has recently held a Samsung Bada Developer Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where it offered Samsung S8500 Wave units to every journalist and programmer present at the event. In addition, the handset vendor also announced that more devices running under the bada operating sy...

25 May 2010
10:40 GMT

Samsung Wave Gets DivX HD Certified, Galaxy S Follows

On Wednesday, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung and leading digital media company DivX, Inc. announced that the Samsung Wave, the first mobile phone to be released on the market with Samsung's new bada operating system on board, had been DivX Certified for HD video playback at 720p resolution. Thus, the S...

25 March 2010
04:20 GMT

Google Apps Users to Get an Early Pass for Wave

Google Wave was only announced three months ago, but the wait has seemed a lot longer for many. Still, it won't be long now that Google will open up its email-IM-wiki combo to a lot more users. But, if you work for a company or go to a school that uses Google Apps, the wait may be even shorter, as Google has ann...

2 September 2009
05:03 GMT

World's Best Tsunami Warning System Built in Indonesia

Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ...

11 November 2008
09:24 GMT

The 2004 Massive Tsunami Repeatedly Happened Before

The Indonesian and Thailand coasts of the Indian Ocean seem to have experienced tragedies like the 2004 enormous tsunami wave that killed in the hundreds of thousands more often than one might believe. Even more than that, this phenomenon could happen regularly, at a rate of 600 years, as the latest studies show. Acc...

30 October 2008
05:55 GMT

Black Holes Are Not Black

Theory says that black holes are objects of extreme mass and density, having powerful gravitational fields able to warp space and time, and surrounded by a boundary called the event horizon, beyond which matter and energy cannot escape the gravitational pull and will ultimately fall in the singularity. In addition to...

13 May 2008
02:52 GMT

World's Oldest Recording: Since 1860

This is the world's oldest audio recording, from an era when today's recording technology seemed fairy tales. American specialists have found and listened an 1860 recording of a folk song. This pre-dated by 17 years the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, which recorded him singing a children's song ...

28 March 2008
08:28 GMT

Electrical Soliton Wave in Space, a First

This is the first time when an electrical soliton wave was found in space and measured by the Cluster mission. The so-called soliton waves are a special type of wave which travel great distances without changing shape. The term soliton wave was first coined by John Scott Russell in 1834, while observing that at the b...

19 March 2008
11:59 GMT

Phone Call Without Speaking

Until a machine will read your thoughts, a first step has been made: New Scientists signals the development of a neckband that decodes your nerve signals into speech. For the first time, you could make a phone call without opening your mouth.A trained individual can transmit motor messages to its vocal cords without ...

19 March 2008
06:12 GMT

Scientists Have Filmed an Electron for the First Time Ever!

The electron has been a theoretical thing for a long time. Like something you know for sure it exists, but you cannot show it to the others. But now you can. In a research published in the "Physical Review Letters," researchers have filmed an electron for the first time ever, moving on a light wave after just having ...

25 February 2008
02:38 GMT

How Does Our Ear Reflect the Sounds?

A healthy ear reacts to the sounds it receives, emitting soft sounds in response. These sounds can be detected by sensitive microphones, which enable doctors check newborns' hearing, as a deaf ear doesn't reflect the sounds. A new study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" and...

13 February 2008
02:46 GMT

The Longest and at the Same Time the Most Adaptable Penis!

Blue whales may have 2,4 m (8 feet) long penises, but that's relatively short: it is like a human having a 10 cm penis, as the blue whale can reach 33 m (100 feet) body length. But barnacles, small crustaceans looking like small shells fixed on rocks or man made structures (or sometimes even on whales!) with a m...

7 February 2008
14:06 GMT

How Does the Radio Work?

The radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation. This theory was first emitted by the British James Clark Maxwell in 1864 and later confirmed by the German Heinrich Hertz in 1880. In 1887, Hertz showed in public the transmission and reception of radio waves. His emitter produced an electric current discharged...

9 January 2008
06:25 GMT

10 Things About Hearing, Sound and Noise

1.Movement or chocking of the objects produce sounds. A sound is the vibration of elastic waves through different environments (solid, liquid, gaseous), with a frequency between 16 Hz to 20,000 Hz (20 kHz) (which is detected by the human ear). 2.Human ear has three parts: external, median and internal. The external e...

27 December 2007
16:56 GMT

New Mysterious Space Radio Waves Bursts: Nutron Star Collision or the Black Holes' Last Breath?

Some achive information from an Australian radio telescope has come with a surprising discovery: a strong, short-lived burst of radio waves betraying a new class of astronomical phenomenon. "This burst appears to have originated from the distant Universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the colli...

1 October 2007
05:59 GMT

A New Tsunami Could Kill Over 1 Million People!

The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people and left half a million homeless in 12 countries. But a new one could be four times more disastrous, killing over a million people in South Asia's Bay of Bengal, but its date cannot be precisely predicted: it could strike Myanmar and Bangladesh in the next few decades or in...

6 September 2007
05:11 GMT

The Enigma of the Sun's Superhot Corona, Solved

Astronomers have busted for the first time in the Sun's corona the elusive oscillations called Alfvn waves, carrying energy outward from the Sun. This could explain the basic behavior of solar magnetic fields and Sun's action on Earth and its whole system."Alfvn waves can provide us with a window into process...

31 August 2007
07:14 GMT

What Is Gravity?

The power of gravity leads to the formation of galaxies, stars and black holes but at the same time is like a chain binding us to the ground. Despite its infinite spread, gravity is the least known and weakest of all forces found in the universe. Moreover, researchers can't assess it in the lab as easily as they...

13 August 2007
05:12 GMT

Hot Keyboard - Logitech Does It Again

Among the many keyboards and mice manufacturers in the world, Logitech stands up and very near the top. I say very near the top and not just on top because sometimes smaller companies like Razer can knock you off your feet with their products. But back at Logitech, they use a nice design for all their products and al...

26 July 2007
05:55 GMT

Nanogenerator Could Draw Energy from Human Blood

Scientists are working on a new type of nanogenerator that could draw the necessary energy from flowing blood in the human body, by using the beating heart and pulsating blood vessels. Once completed, this new cellular engine could find various applications, even beyond medicine.Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the ...

21 July 2007
06:46 GMT

Could We Ever Accurately Predict Earthquakes?

Earthquakes are some of the nature's most destructive forces and the main problem about them is that we can't really predict when and where they are going to occur next. Of course, there are fault lines and areas where tectonic activity has been recorded for hundreds of years, but we can't say for sur...

21 July 2007
04:16 GMT

How to Count Photons Using an Atom Laser

An atom laser is similar to an optical one and is in fact a coherent beam of atoms that behaves like a wave. Though a relatively recent discovery, still in its 'infancy', this technology could soon have many practical applications, like in extremely precise measurements."When doing precise measurements of ...

19 July 2007
09:44 GMT

Gravitational Waves - The One Thing Einstein Wasn't Sure of

Einstein's famous quote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" is not exactly accurate. He wasn't sure of another thing, the existence of the gravitational waves.In fact, he repeatedly changed his mind regarding the existence of this phenomeno...

18 July 2007
08:21 GMT

The Device That Shrinks Huge Light Waves to Pinpoints

Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that exists all around us, in nature as well as in man-made applications. It's the manipulation of these light waves that made possible some of the most widely used technologies of today, from cameras to microwave ovens and medical imaging machines.A new device, deve...

13 July 2007
04:17 GMT

Heat + Sound = Electrifying Love

That's exactly what a team of scientists observed in an experiment and then transformed into a practical device. The gadget can turn heat into sound and then into electricity and is very promising as an effective method of transforming waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers a...

4 June 2007
03:38 GMT

Scientists Developed Atomic Spectroscopy on a Chip

Atomic spectroscopy is the determination of elemental composition by its electromagnetic or mass spectrum, based on the interactions of light and matter, and a widely used technique with diverse applications.Holger Schmidt, associate professor of electrical engineering, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an...

2 June 2007
06:02 GMT

Elephants Tell by Seismic Waves if You Are A Friend or Not

Elephants are not only the largest land mammals, but also the possessors of some amazing abilities, like that of infrasound communication over large areas. We cannot hear them, but elephants located tens of kilometers away can. In 2004, the behavioral ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University in...

1 June 2007
06:12 GMT

Quantum Tricks - Atoms Appearing in Two Places at Once

The quantum world is full of surprises, unexpected behaviors and facts that seem to contradict the logic of the macroscopic world. A new method of studying atom interferometry has observed such weird behaviors of atoms, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while also making the atoms do things t...

28 May 2007
03:36 GMT

Trapping a Gravity Wave Using Entangled Photons

A gravity wave is a fluctuation, or a ripple, in the curvature of space-time, which travels as a wave, outward from a moving object or system of objects. For example, an accelerating mass loses its entire energy when exceeding certain levels, which creates gravitational module in the form of a ripple.Scientists have...

15 May 2007
07:01 GMT

Future Bridges Will Rock With Earthquakes Without Breaking

Everybody knows the famous robot dance. Well, it seems that the next generation of bridges will dance on a different beat, the earthquake dance. A group of researchers made up mostly of earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER, funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, have reached the c...

10 May 2007
15:31 GMT

Magnetic Fields Can Be Manipulated with Soundwaves

Present information technologies rely on electrons for carrying process data and information, but, as silicon technology is reaching its physical limits, researchers are looking for alternatives. Another emerging field is "spintronics", that deals with the use of the "spin" of an electron for storing, processing an...

28 April 2007
05:50 GMT

How Do Tsunamis Emerge?

The last one has just occurred in the Solomon Islands, taking with it at least 20 victims. But what's a tsunami?Tsunami ("harbor wave" in Japanese) represents a series of great sea waves provoked by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption and sometimes by the collision of a giant meteor with th...

3 April 2007
03:31 GMT

More Than 1,000 Massive Black Holes

Astronomers have managed to get a picture of more than a thousand supermassive black holes, a complex image of a crucial time when these monster space objects are growing, and offers clues about the environments in which they occur.This achievement was made employing NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer...

14 March 2007
06:13 GMT

Breakthrough: Light Proven to be Particle and Wave at the Same Time

For 80 years, the scientists have supported Niels Bohr's opinions stating that in any experiment, light shows only one aspect at a time, either a wave or a particle. "Einstein was deeply troubled by that principle, since he could not accept that any external measurement would prevent light to reveal its full dua...

13 March 2007
08:10 GMT


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