Conventional wisdom and scientific arguments have claimed that societies with more men than women, such as China, will become more violent, but a University of California, Davis, study has found that a male-biased sex ratio ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2014
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The Matterhorn's days are numbered. Although populations are not in danger, scientists warn that its predicted collapse could occur at any moment.
Earth Sciences
Apr 1, 2014
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(Phys.org) —It takes dedication and perseverance to solve a mystery that has been around for 50 years. Just ask Reinhard Schumacher, a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He and his colleagues analyzed data ...
General Physics
Apr 1, 2014
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Microbiologists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that an identical protein is used differently by two species of bacteria to help them cope with distinct types of environmental stress. The discovery reveals an ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 1, 2014
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Although we should do all we can to stop further climate change, we should prepare our homes, businesses and cities for the impact of irreversible change and reap the economic benefits in the process, says a group of experts ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2014
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Common challenges faced by high-conflict families include domestic abuse, poor mental health and addiction according to new research by a Trinity academic. The research was published recently in a new report entitled Policy ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the United Nations Development Programme have analyzed how human-induced climate change has affected recent flooding in ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2014
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Researchers in China, have found a convenient way to selectively prepare germanium sulfide nanostructures, including nanosheets and nanowires, that are more active than their bulk counterparts and could open the way to lower ...
Nanophysics
Apr 1, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Supercomputers are constantly evolving to meet the increasing complexity of calculations ranging from global climate models to cosmic inflation. The bigger the puzzle, the more scientists and engineers push ...
General Physics
Apr 1, 2014
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In the burgeoning world of nanotechnology, researchers see many potentially useful properties at the interfaces of materials called metal oxides—from magnetoresistance (the reason a hard drive can write to memory) to superconductivity ...
General Physics
Apr 1, 2014
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