Tiered ticketing and investment key to easing metropolitan commute
What if your rush to work each morning could be that little bit less stressful?
Other
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Radish gathers strength against herbicides and moves south
Control of the prolific and extremely adaptable weed, Raphanus raphanistrum, continues to be one of the biggest headaches facing WA grain farmers, with a survey finding the weed's resistance to certain herbicides has increased ...
Ecology
Nov 9, 2015
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Do we need a new theory of gravity?
In the late 1990s physicists discovered, to their consternation, that the expansion of the universe is not slowing but accelerating. Nothing in the 'standard model of cosmology' could account for this, and so a new term was ...
General Physics
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Match Group plans to raise up to $466.2M from its IPO
The owner of Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid hopes to raise as much as $466.2 million in an initial public offering, which would put the value of the dating site company in the neighborhood of $3 billion.
Business
Nov 9, 2015
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Swiss camera leaves for Mars
A camera designed and built at the University of Bern left Bern today at 6:00 in the morning for Cannes in France where it will be integrated on the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft at ...
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2015
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Computer model developed for predicting the dispersion of vog
A paper published this month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society details the development and utility of a computer model for the dispersion of volcanic smog or "vog," which forms when volcanic sulfur dioxide ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2015
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Nanostructuring technology to simultaneously control heat and electricity
The improvement of thermoelectric materials that can directly convert wasted heat to electric energy may lead to one of the solutions for energy issues. For high performance in thermoelectric materials, it's required to easily ...
Nanophysics
Nov 9, 2015
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Public benches should be viewed for health and wellbeing benefits – not anti-social behaviour
Hanging out on public benches should be recognised as essential for mental health and social wellbeing and should not be viewed as unwelcome lingering or potential anti-social behaviour, according to new research published ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2015
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Can you imagine a 'Cashless society'? Sweden is nearly there
A new study out of Sweden says the tiny country is on course to become the world's first "cashless society," thanks in part to a mobile payment app called Swish.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 9, 2015
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Delving deep into caves can teach us about climate past and present
Have you ever enjoyed the cool refuge that an underground cave offers from a hot summer's day? Or perhaps you have experienced the soothing warmth when entering a cave during winter?
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2015
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