U.S. agricultural practices create 58 percent of nitrous oxide in the world, which is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Scientists believe nitrous oxide contributes to global warming about 300 times ...
Environment
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ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, now working as a flight engineer on the International Space Station, is busy with a range of scientific experiments. The latest is peering inside his head to help understand how the human brain ...
Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2011
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If you are looking to lose weight in the coming year, you may need help from an unexpected place: the bacteria in your gut. That's because scientists have discovered that the bacteria living in your intestines may play a ...
Biotechnology
Jan 13, 2011
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What is it that makes you want to return to a restaurant again and again?
Economics & Business
Jan 13, 2011
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Zoologists of the University Jena (Germany) analysed the central factor for the development of the morphologically distinctive features of the tadpoles. "We were able to show that the 'FOXN3' most of all influences the development ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2011
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A new study from North Carolina State University highlights a major flaw in attempting to use a single survey question to assess public opinion on science issues. Researchers found that people who say that risks posed by ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a significant new computing resource.
Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2011
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Jonathan Santiago, of STEM2GETHER, describes his experience working with GreenFab and teaching advanced technical concepts to students in the Bronx.
Other
Jan 13, 2011
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An international team of astronomers including Grant Wilson and Min Yun at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has detected one of the earliest "protoclusters" of galaxies ever identified, located about 12.5 billion light ...
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2011
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The force that governs some of the reactions that keep our sun shining is not quite as weak as scientists had previously thought. As a consequence, our estimation of how energetic the sun actually is just went up by a tiny ...
General Physics
Jan 13, 2011
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