The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized toy.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jun 17, 2013 4.2 / 5 (6) 2

Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons, making coral reefs more vulnerable to disruption and erosion, according to a new study of corals growing ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

A new study shows that the predator-prey relationship can affect the flow of carbon through an ecosystem. This previously unmeasured influence on the environment may offer a new way of looking at biodiversity management and ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

The pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers report ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 6 |

Sustainability programs are a Goldilocks proposition – some groups are too big, some are too small, and the environment benefits when the size of a group of people working to save it is just right.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 1 |

An antibiotic has been found to stimulate its own production. The findings, to be published in PNAS, could make it easier to scale up antibiotic production for commercialisation.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

Technology - Business

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service.

Technology - Internet

Jun 17, 2013 1 / 5 (2) 0

High-frequency trading strategies that exploit today's fragmented equity markets reduce investor profits overall, according to new findings by University of Michigan engineering researchers. The study is believed to be the ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jun 17, 2013 4.1 / 5 (9) 3 |

In a major collaboration, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Intel will unveil a new process for parallel programming systems at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

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The deep-space telescope Herschel took its final bow on Monday, climaxing a successful four-year mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (13) 2

Home remodelers understand the concept of improving original foundations with more modern elements. Using this same approach—but with chemistry—researchers in the University of Pittsburgh's Kenneth P. Dietrich School ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Amphibian populations are declining worldwide and a major cause is a deadly fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs, but a two-year study shows they can also die from this pathogen, contrary to suggestions ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 17, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 1 |

Mannitol, a sugar alcohol produced by fungi, bacteria, and algae, is a common component of sugar-free gum and candy. The sweetener is also used in the medical field—it's approved by the FDA as a diuretic ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 0 |