U.S. Forest Service and partner scientists are keeping a watchful eye on forest health. As fall colors replace the lush greenness of spring and summer, researchers recognize telltale signs of change in healthy forests.
Environment
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Of all the amazing technologies humans have developed, none has matched the complexity of the fundamental building block of nature: the living cell. And none of the cell's activities would be possible without thin lipid membranes, ...
Biochemistry
Oct 1, 2013
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What does the assistive robot of the future look like? It depends. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot ...
Robotics
Oct 1, 2013
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To meet a goal set by the US Environmental Protection Agencys Renewable Fuels Standard to use 36 billion gallons of biofuels each year—mostly ethanol—the nation must expand its infrastructure for transporting and storing ...
Engineering
Oct 1, 2013
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Northern Canada's permafrost and semi-permafrost environment is a huge challenge for designing and engineering underground pipelines, and a critical aspect of protecting both the pipeline and this sensitive environment involves ...
Engineering
Oct 1, 2013
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As they destroy bacteria very efficiently, plasmas constitute an alternative to chemical disinfectants and potentially to antibiotics, as well. How they achieve this effect has been investigated by biologists, plasma physicists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 1, 2013
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Getting up and going to work is hard enough every day. But add to your burden the need to remember every step of your job down the smallest detail—and the fact that if you want to change careers, your lack of credentials ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 1, 2013
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The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a new report, "Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013,"PDF funded ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 1, 2013
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Under contract by Network Rail, a team of engineers at the University of Huddersfield's Institute of Railway Research (IRR) has been developing solutions for the problematic interface between a Tram-Train vehicle and two ...
Engineering
Oct 1, 2013
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As food security becomes an increasingly important global issue, scientists are looking for the best way to maintain the organic matter in soils using different methods of fertilization and crop rotation.
Environment
Oct 1, 2013
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