Articles form April 2008

MARSIS Studies the underground of Mars

Even though astronomers can now map the surface of Mars, getting information about the underground has proved to be quite difficult. To this end, a new technology that can achieve this has been created - MARSIS, EPA’s Mars Express radar sounder.
MARSIS stands for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, and it managed to [...]

Nanotechnology paves the was for super iPods

Scientists from the University of Glasgow have made a discovery that could allow the storage capacity of an iPod to increase by 150.000 times. A molecule-sized switch has been developed by nanotechnology researchers, which means that data storage can be increased without increasing component size.
Professor Lee Cronin says that this would allow them to squeeze [...]

Music and mathematics are related

Scientists have continually tried to establish a connection between music and mathematics, but they were unsuccessful until a few years ago, when Prof Dmitri Tymoczko from Princeton University discovered that there is actually a strong link between them.
Along with other scientists, Prof Tzmoczko managed to develop a method to analyze and categorize music in order [...]

Testosterone pumps up the profits

Recent research has shown that financial traders tend to make more money when their testosterone levels are high. This might be linked to the fact that the so-called male hormone makes them more confident and focused.
Still, researchers from the University of Cambridge say that high testosterone levels might also explain why stock traders sometimes make [...]