(Phys.org)—The relocation of the Herbarium's one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University's state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A coating so thin it's invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion, creating tremendous potential for metal protection even in harsh environments.
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2012
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(AP)—The International Space Station is safe from two pieces of menacing junk.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2012
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(Phys.org)—For two decades, evolutionary scientists have been locked in a debate over the evolved functions of three distinctive human behaviors: the great readiness we show for cooperating with new people; the strong interest ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2012
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An international group of scientists, including researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, are working to improve communication about ocean acidification to help the public better understand the pressing global ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2012
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Using a state-of-the-art digital specimen table called Insider Explorer, visitors to the Museum's largest ever science festival will be able to peel away the mummified cat's bandages in ways never before possible.
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A University of Queensland staff member is sending a satellite into space more powerful than the Curiosity Rover which recently landed on Mars.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2012
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Occupy Wall Street marked its one-year anniversary on Sept. 17. Protestors have packed up their tents and vacated sites such as New York's Zuccotti Park and Boston's Dewey Square, but we asked Jeffrey Born, ...
Economics & Business
Sep 27, 2012
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Salt cedar along the waterways of the southern and eastern Panhandle is rapidly being defoliated and dying back, and one Texas A&M AgriLife Research entomologist believes he knows why.
Ecology
Sep 27, 2012
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Protons to the right, ions to the left: the basic principle of proton-ion collisions at the LHC might seem straightforward. However, this is an almost unprecedented mode of collider operation, certainly unique at the energy ...
General Physics
Sep 27, 2012
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