(Phys.org)—A new model by a team of researchers with The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute may shed new understanding on the phenomenon known as discontinuous shear thickening (DST), in which the resistance ...
Soft Matter
Jan 16, 2014
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The costs of achieving a more ambitious EU climate target are estimated to be moderate. Upscaling greenhouse-gas emissions reduction from the current 20 percent by 2020 to 40 percent by 2030 would be likely to cost less than ...
Environment
Jan 16, 2014
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A Perth-based hydro-geologist has led a team of scientists modelling carbon sequestration in the Latrobe aquifer, below Bass Strait's ocean floor.
Environment
Jan 16, 2014
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Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of technology that can discover and automatically link data representing the same underlying subject among Linked Open Data (LOD) available throughout the world and individual ...
Software
Jan 16, 2014
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Reports this week reveal the number of text messages sent between mobile phones has fallen into decline for the first time since the service was introduced. According to figures from Deloitte, the number of messages sent ...
Telecom
Jan 16, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Gross Domestic Product is a misleading measure of national success, say ANU experts.
Economics & Business
Jan 16, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Some Heinrich events – periodic massive iceberg surges into the North Atlantic that were previously thought to have weakened the global ocean conveyor belt circulation and sent Earth's climate into the deep ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2014
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NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016.
Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2014
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USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2014
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IBM today announced the sixth generation of its enterprise X-Architecture for System x and PureSystems servers, providing industry-leading improvements in the performance and economics of x86-based systems for analytics and ...
Hardware
Jan 16, 2014
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