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Developing countries often outsource deforestation, study finds
In many developing countries, forest restoration at home has led to deforestation abroad, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Stanford students fly in zero gravity to protect satellites from tiny meteoroids (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have completed the first successful tests in zero gravity of a canopy for CubeSats – the tiny satellites that hitch rides on rockets sending larger satellites into ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Stanford scientists see the logic in the illogical behavior of neurons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurons in your brain trigger the physical movements of your body, but some of them seem to fire in a crazy quilt pattern just before and during the movement. But Stanford researchers say ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 08, 2010 |
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How much oil is there, how much more will we use and at what price?
Too often the debate over the world's use of oil has been marred by skewed information. In his recently published book, 'Oil Panic and the Global Crisis,' Stanford Professor Steven Gorelick lays out the facts ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Getting older leads to emotional stability, happiness: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- As people age, they're more emotionally balanced and better able to solve highly emotional problems, says psychology professor and longevity expert Laura Carstensen.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Roundtable looks at longevity and the boomers
It's been called "elderquake" and "the silver tsunami." Its statistics are staggering: Over the next three decades, the number of people older than 65 in the United States will double from 40 million to 80 ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Need a study break to refresh? Maybe not, say researchers
It could happen to students cramming for exams, people working long hours or just about anyone burning the candle at both ends: Something tells you to take a break. Watch some TV. Have a candy bar. Goof off, tune out for ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Stanford researcher's online map pinpoints cigarette factories around the world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cigarettes are on track to kill 1 billion people by the end of the century. Anthropologist Matthew Kohrman is sharing information he hopes will bring that number down.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today, because light behaves differently at scales around a nanometer, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Anglers and Stanford scientists track marlins' unusual migration routes
An annual collaboration of Stanford researchers and sport anglers in Hawaii is revealing the long migration paths of the Pacific blue marlin, a large, spectacular fish with a snout shaped like a spear. Electronic ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Professor's book touches on complicated social development, geography
A small, flat-faced, yapping dog named Looty has a big story behind him. And it goes back centuries.
Sep 15, 2010 |
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New high-sensitivity electronic skin can feel a butterfly's footsteps
Stanford researchers have developed an ultrasensitive, highly flexible, electronic sensor that can feel a touch as light as an alighting fly. Manufactured in large sheets, the sensors could be used in artificial ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Stanford land-use expert brings satellite data down to Earth
By integrating remote satellite imagery with revelations from door-to-door interviews, Stanford University geographer Eric Lambin and his colleagues are exploring the complex conditions that give rise to a ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this
(PhysOrg.com) -- Students, here's an Internet site you can footnote. The entries in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are written by leading experts and vetted by others before they appear. From quantum mechanics ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest: researcher
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into ...
Sep 03, 2010 |
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