It's become a kind of legend, like Newton and the apple or George Washington and the cherry tree. One day in 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with colleagues at the Fuller Lodge at Los Alamos National ...
Astronomy
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Interactions between visitors to Karijini National Park in the Pilbara and park rangers makes for happier visitors, according to recent research.
Ecology
Apr 8, 2015
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A multidisciplinary scientific team improved such physical properties of heavy and extra heavy oil as viscosity, surface tension and density by applying chemicals. The purpose is to facilitate its management and profitability ...
Materials Science
Apr 8, 2015
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Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have demonstrated the enhanced performance and high reliability of tunnel transistors (tunnel FETs), which are considered promising technology ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Apr 8, 2015
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Preventing Australia's biodiversity from collapsing needs long-term science-based programs that are more complex than just culling cats and foxes, says leading environmental scientist Professor David Lindenmayer.
Ecology
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The internet of things has attracted a lot of attention and generated considerable column inches; and yet, despite all the attention, has remained pretty much absent – an internet of vaporware.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 8, 2015
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From the time humans began discovering and conquering new continents, they also started transporting animals and plants around the world and releasing them in locations where they never occurred before. Most of these alien ...
Ecology
Apr 8, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in Australia has found that bright coloring on female birds appears to be a reproductive disadvantage. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the team describes ...
Researchers in South Korea have developed a novel photolithographic technology enabling control over the functional shapes of micropatterns using oxygen diffusion.
Materials Science
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(Phys.org)—A small group of researchers affiliated with the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland has conducted a study looking into the reason why some butterflies have eye-looking images on their wings. In their paper published ...
