Image: Sentinel-2A captures Mount St Helens
Sentinel-2A captured this image of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington on 8 February.
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2016
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Chance microlensing events probe galactic cores
Some galaxies pump out vast amounts of energy from a very small volume of space, typically not much bigger than our own solar system. The cores of these galaxies, so called Active Galactic Nuclei or AGNs, are often hundreds ...
Astronomy
Jul 1, 2016
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Gravitational lens zooms in on why some quasars have the radio turned down
Mini-jets of material ejected from a central supermassive black hole appear to be the culprits behind faint radio wave emissions in 'radio-quiet' quasars. A study of gravitationally lensed images of four radio-quiet quasars ...
Astronomy
Jul 1, 2016
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Most people in Britain today regard themselves working class
Six out of ten people in Britain today consider themselves working class because they believe their family background determines class rather than occupation or whether they went to university. Just under half (47%) of those ...
Social Sciences
Jul 1, 2016
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Researchers monitored seismic shocks that preceded Iceland's biggest volcanic eruption in 200 years
In 2014, Cambridge researchers monitored a series of seismic shocks which preceded Iceland's biggest volcanic eruption in 200 years. The dramatic story of their work, and its scientific value, is now part of this year's Royal ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2016
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Living on the edge—succeeding in the slums
Cities exist in a state of constant flux: not always 'smart' and successful, they can be vulnerable, chaotic and seem on the edge of failure. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the shanty towns and slums. How can these ...
Social Sciences
Jul 1, 2016
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Citizen scientists to investigate our saltmarshes
Marine scientists are appealing to citizen scientists to collect information about Britain's saltmarshes with a new mobile phone app.
Environment
Jul 1, 2016
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Army Corps to reduce lake flows fueling Florida algae bloom
As a noxious algae bloom fouls beaches on Florida's Atlantic coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to reduce the flow of water from Lake Okeechobee that many blame for fueling the problem.
Environment
Jul 1, 2016
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Berkeley Lab prepares for quantum-classical computing future
Jarrod McClean and his Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues want to simulate and predict the chemistry and properties of advanced compounds before scientists go into the lab to make them.
Quantum Physics
Jul 1, 2016
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Cryo-EM's renaissance: NERSC resources help illuminate human molecular machinery
In a pair of breakthrough Nature papers published recently, researchers in Eva Nogales' Lab at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) mapped two important protein functions in unprecedented ...
Biochemistry
Jul 1, 2016
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