As leaders gather in Paris for the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) over the next two weeks, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is set to release five policy briefings that will help governments understand the role ...
Environment
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NASA Glenn Research Center scientists and students in Case Western Reserve University's interdisciplinary Fusion program are studying a novel water purification technology and how to commercialize it. Senior researchers at ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 1, 2015
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Mention the Mad Hatter and the image that comes to mind is the character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—a little batty but quite harmless. But for UBC mining engineering professor Marcello Veiga, the words call up ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2015
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Vulnerable states have featured prominently on the first day of Paris Climate talks. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon unveiled a new initiative to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable people and countries to the ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2015
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Keysight Technologies, Inc., in collaboration with electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, has demonstrated the world's first 64 (8 x 8) and 256-element (16 x 16), 60-GHz silicon wafer-scale phased-array ...
Telecom
Dec 1, 2015
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Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. The small ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat and have no way to get warm, so they are frozen ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2015
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The sweet, juicy peaches we love today might have been a popular snack long before modern humans arrived on the scene.
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2015
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MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light—the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D movie systems—they can increase the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging devices ...
Engineering
Dec 1, 2015
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Thousands of years ago lived a woman in the Egyptian city of Asyut, on the west side of the Nile River Valley, 375 miles south of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Her true name is unknown, but today some call her Hatason.
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2015
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Final preparations are under way at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, for the launch of LISA Pathfinder, ESA's technology demonstrator that will pave the way for detecting gravitational waves from space. Liftoff ...
Space Exploration
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