The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, built at DOE's Fermilab and mounted on the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope in Chile, delivers some of the most detailed images of celestial objects. While about a third of the camera's ...
Space Exploration
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Higher performance nuclear fuels could allow use in a reactor for longer periods of time along with enhanced tolerance to severe accident conditions. The summer of 2014 marked an important milestone toward development of ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 10, 2015
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15 ancient skeletons have been discovered on an archaeological dig in Ipplepen, a major Romano-British settlement in Devon and now the best preserved Roman cemetery. University of Exeter archaeologists and a team of students ...
Archaeology
Feb 10, 2015
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Be careful what you say in front of your new television, following reports that Samsung's new Smart TVs are now being programmed to listen to every word you say and send it over the internet to a third party cloud service.
Security
Feb 10, 2015
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A team of University of Reading scientists has developed a mathematical technique that can work out when changes to how words are pronounced occurred in different languages.
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2015
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We live in an increasingly noisy world. Since even low-level noise can affect quality of life, new tools to deal with noise are welcome. "Auralisation", the audio equivalent of visualisation, is now helping to model and improve ...
Other
Feb 10, 2015
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Scientists from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) believe that the bird's nest fern, a plant commonly found in many of our homes, has a critical place in maintaining the biodiversity and the ecosystems of ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2015
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The city of AlmerÃa in Spain is set to pioneer efficient new water management methods as part of an EU-funded project. Scheduled for completion in May 2015, the URBANWATER initiative will enable consumers to use water more ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2015
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The IBS research team (Center for Genome Engineering) has successfully confirmed that CRISPR-Cas9 has accurate on-target effects in human cells, through joint research with the Seoul National University College of Medicine ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 10, 2015
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It seems that in some states the wildfire season has started early this year.
Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2015
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