"Whales" in the mobile industry, including Apple, AT & T, Research in Motion, and some other companies, it seems, once again at risk of land in the dock. According to AppleInsider, this time, the challenge thrown by the Texas SmartPhone Technologies, which accuses of leading players in the market of cellular communication in violation of seven of its patents related to the protocol of Bluetooth, synchronization of email and some of the conceptual developments related to smart phones.

Perhaps raised in the beginning of 2010 the assumption of early rising trend in solar activity have been somewhat exaggerated.

A group of researchers has shown that different types of growling dogs have a different meaning. Article scientists published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Brief paper wrote New Scientist.

A citizen of Germany, concerned about saving the Earth, the second time lost in the court of the European Center for Nuclear Research. She failed to prove that the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland threatens mankind.

Scientists have identified a molecule that naturally controls the aging organism, which will continue to use it to prevent diseases associated with old age, researchers reported in the article published in the issue of the journal Science on Friday.

A scan of the nose may be a better way to identify people than iris scan or fingerprint - say researchers at the British University of Bath.

Archaeologists have discovered in the Syrian desert several ancient burial sites, as well as circles, made with stones. Examining the stone tools found here, scientists have suggested that findings may be dated to 8,5 thousand - 4.3 thousand years BC For comparison, similar structures in Europe are dated to 4.5 thousand years BC, reports the Independent.

Earthquake in Chile led to a reduction in the length of Earth days and the Earth's axis shifted by 8 inches. Such a conclusion was staff's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, Richard Gross.

In Hanover opened a traditional computer technology exhibition CeBIT-2010. At the opening of the exhibition, which will last the next 5 days present German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Spain this year serves as the partner country CeBIT-2010.

Scientists have discovered a large quantity of ice-filled craters on the Moon's north pole. Article scientists appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, and its summary is provided in a press release NASA.