Flower study aids crop development
Warming autumn evenings are causing plants to flower faster than they used to, scientists have found.
Biotechnology
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Fujitsu introduces next-generation multimode, multiband transceiver IC for 2G/3G/4G mobile products
Fujitsu Semiconductor today introduced the MB86L11A, the company’s next-generation, single-chip 2G/3G/4G transceiver. The multiband, multimode device supports all modes, including LTE (FDD and TDD), HSPA+, WCDMA, GSM, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Mar 5, 2012
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Antlia dwarf galaxy peppers the sky with stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers such clarity that they could be mistaken ...
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2012
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WUSTL anthropologists’ work prompts Republic of Congo to enlarge national park
Research by Washington University in St. Louis anthropologist Crickette Sanz, PhD, and colleague David Morgan, PhD, has spurred the Republic of Congo to enlarge its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park boundaries to include ...
Ecology
Mar 5, 2012
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Ant identification boosts blue butterflies
Scientists have developed a fast, cheap and reliable technique that vastly improves the chances of successfully reintroducing the endangered large blue butterfly to the UK.
Ecology
Mar 5, 2012
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The snows of Mount Washington
"Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard ...
Environment
Mar 5, 2012
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Engineers tuck nuSTAR in its nose cone
(PhysOrg.com) -- Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), in preparation ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2012
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A traffic jam of quantum particles
(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists discover surprising transport phenomena in ultracold quantum many body systems.
Quantum Physics
Mar 5, 2012
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The net migration 'bounce'
New analysis by Oxford University’s Migration Observatory shows that any short term cut to net-migration brought about by reductions in immigration will be partially reversed in the long term because of declining emigration. ...
Social Sciences
Mar 5, 2012
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Possible water in the atmosphere of a super-Earth
A "super-Earth" is an exoplanet (a planet around another star) whose mass is between about two and ten Earth-masses. Planets larger than this are closer to Uranus and Neptune in size (and perhaps in other physical properties ...
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2012
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