Evidence suggests La Nina will return this winter
(PhysOrg.com) -- A return of La Nina, which historically delivers dry conditions, is increasingly likely.
Aug 24, 2011
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Computer scientist helps verify new satellite communication rules
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Illinois at Chicago computer scientist is at work on communications verification methods for a customized network of satellites.
Aug 24, 2011
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Lost Roman port found in Wales
The remains of a 2000-year-old Roman port have been discovered in south Wales by archaeologists from the University.
Aug 24, 2011
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World survey suggests major technology changes
A new global survey by the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) suggests that a technological overhaul of production processes worldwide is needed to end poverty and avert the likely impacts ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Reforestation practices may be lagging behind climate change
A University of Alberta study is sounding a warning about forestry practices in North America, claiming that climate change is already rendering established planting guidelines obsolete.
Aug 24, 2011
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Scanners reveal a wreck on the bottom of Lake Geneva
The Russian submersibles involved in EPFL’s elemo project have discovered a new wreck on the bottom of the lake. Underwater archaeology is benefiting from scanners developed for scientific research.
Aug 24, 2011
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Like no other view on Earth
You think your vacation pictures are impressive? Try to imagine what it was like 45 years ago as scientists and engineers produced the very first images of our planet from deep space.
Aug 24, 2011
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Emission sources identified in Huon Study
Emissions from domestic wood-fired heaters in southern Tasmania's Huon Valley dwarf emissions from forest regeneration burns, according to a new CSIRO study.
Aug 24, 2011
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Learning the lessons of Fukushima
Among the lessons to be learned from the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daichii nuclear powerplant, according to a new report from MIT, are that emergency generators should be better protected from flooding ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Ingenious fishing method may be spreading through dolphins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Murdoch University believe a recently documented method of fishing may be spreading throughout a population of dolphins.
Aug 24, 2011
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Storing vertebrates in the cloud
What Google is attempting for books, the University of California, Berkeley, plans to do for the world's vertebrate specimens: store them in "the cloud."
Aug 24, 2011
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Human mission to an asteroid: Why should NASA go?
Imagine, if you can, the first time human eyes see Earth as a distant, pale blue dot. We’ve dreamed of deep space missions for centuries, and during the Apollo era, space enthusiasts assumed we’d ...
Aug 24, 2011
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NASA satellites detect pothole on road to higher seas
Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm. This, along with melting glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, drives sea levels higher over the long term. For the past 18 years, ...
Aug 24, 2011
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Corp. social responsibility programs have little impact on stocks: study
Stocks of companies that are committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies perform statistically similarly to those corporations that do not have these programs, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University ...
Aug 24, 2011
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