(PhysOrg.com) -- The current Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards create a financial incentive for auto companies to make bigger vehicles that are allowed to meet lower targets, according to a new University of Michigan ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 8, 2011
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Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN's Nobel-winning climate scientists says.
Environment
Dec 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands sets out our current knowledge of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2011
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To most of us, one seal seems much like another. But a new study shows they have varied personalities that lead to distinctive approaches to parenting.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The proportion of women who lead California’s largest companies is growing at such a slow pace that it will take more than a century for women business leaders to achieve parity with men, a UC Davis ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration led by the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has used scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) to acquire images of the magnetic ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of 2.4 million Twitter messages from the time of the riots has found that politicians and other commentators were wrong to claim the website played an important role in inciting and organising the ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2011
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A readily available medical dye could become an key tool in amphibian conservation and management and the research is soon to be published in the Herpetological Journal.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2011
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The great British public has helped scientists uncover what looks like a substantial decline in one of the UK's most common bumblebees over the last 20 years.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Gaia star-mapper has passed a critical test ahead of its launch in 2013: the spacecraft’s sunshield has been deployed for the first time.
Space Exploration
Dec 8, 2011
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