Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet.
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2016
0
6
Have you applied for and received a rebate from California's clean vehicle incentive program? If so, odds are you live in a high-income neighborhood and not one with a majority Hispanic or African American population, according ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 8, 2016
17
4
As turtles in Australia leave the safety of their nests and head to dry land to mate this November, Western Sydney University researchers are calling on Australians to log any sightings on a web app.
Ecology
Nov 8, 2016
0
30
The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is the first in a series looking at those threats in detail.
Environment
Nov 8, 2016
0
4
Bushfires have been the most common natural disaster in New South Wales over the past decade, according to our study published today in Nature's Scientific Reports.
Environment
Nov 8, 2016
0
2
What would happen if an electric current no longer flowed, but trickled instead? This was the question investigated by researchers working with Christian Ast at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Their investigation ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 8, 2016
2
4445
Climate change, not the ongoing regional conflict, was behind last year's huge dust storm in the Middle East, according to new research published in Environmental Research Letters.
Environment
Nov 8, 2016
0
5
A Manchester-based astrophysicist has presented research at a major international conference which is expected to provide scientists with valuable insights into the behaviour of gravity in the early stages of the universe, ...
Astronomy
Nov 8, 2016
0
129
Shining a light through opaque materials seems impossible. And yet, researchers at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science (Utrecht University) and the University of Twente have managed to increase the transmission ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 8, 2016
0
20
Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, today announced its first observations using ...
Astronomy
Nov 8, 2016
2
18
