About 13,000 years ago, a climate crisis caused a global drop in temperatures in the northern hemisphere. This episode of intense cold, known as the Younger Dryas, also caused severe aridity across the Mediterranean basin, ...
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2023
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By the time she was six years old, Nadya Bliss had already figured out her professional calling. She knew that one day she would be a mathematician.
Mathematics
Feb 14, 2015
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An international research team led by scientists from the CNRS has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.
Condensed Matter
Apr 18, 2024
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Oregon State University researchers have patented a new strain of a succulent red marine algae called dulse that grows extraordinarily quickly, is packed full of protein and has an unusual trait when it is cooked.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2015
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In the last 40 years, the major innovation in software engineering has been the development of what are called object-oriented programming languages. “Objects” are, effectively, repositories for the computational ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 7, 2011
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Innovative research at Flinders University supports the importance of creativity in problem-solving to invigorate interest in mathematics.
Mathematics
Feb 4, 2020
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(AP) -- The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed.
Internet
Jan 26, 2012
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An entrepreneur whose Eureka moment came at last year's wet and windy Grand National has reinvented the umbrella with the help of WMG at the University of Warwick.
Engineering
May 10, 2013
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Scientists have designed a micro aircraft that will be able to flap, glide and hover like a bird.
Engineering
Jul 2, 2011
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(Phys.org) —Herds of wooly mammoths once shook the earth beneath their feet, sending humans scurrying across the landscape of prehistoric Ohio. But then something much larger shook the Earth itself, and at that point these ...
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2013
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