A portable use-of-force simulator aimed at launching a new era in police training is being rolled out by Washington State University.
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2016
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With more than 74,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel stored at locations around the United States, ensuring the safety of moving it to more secure disposal sites is a top federal priority.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 1, 2016
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Bolivia has more species of birds than any other land-locked country in the world. It is sixth in the world in terms of diversity of bird species, which is notable given that it has no marine birds. LSU Museum of Natural ...
Ecology
Dec 1, 2016
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MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain's face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models have missed.
Computer Sciences
Dec 1, 2016
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Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms kill people and damage property every year. Estimated U.S. insured losses due to severe thunderstorms in the first half of 2016 were $8.5 billion. The largest U.S. impacts of tornadoes result ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2016
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Scientists have taken spectroscopic snapshots of nature's most mysterious relay race: the passage of extra protons from one water molecule to another during conductivity.
Materials Science
Dec 1, 2016
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Scientists have created the first validated mathematical model of an important cellular defense mechanism against the bacterium Salmonella, according to a new study in PLOS Computational Biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 1, 2016
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Astronomers studying a cluster of still-forming protogalaxies seen as they were more than 10 billion years ago have found that a giant galaxy in the center of the cluster is forming from a surprisingly-dense soup of molecular ...
Astronomy
Dec 1, 2016
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London's mayor has issued air quality alerts across the capital for the first time because of high pollution levels.
Environment
Dec 1, 2016
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While it seems static from our vantage point on Earth 93 million miles away, the sun is constantly changing. Under the influence of complex magnetic forces, material moves throughout the solar atmosphere and can burst forth ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2016
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