A new study of more than 500 Black and Latino college students has confirmed that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources.
Social Sciences
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California's aquifers are shrinking as more growers pump groundwater to keep crops alive. But that fertile farmland may also provide the means for replenishing groundwater to benefit everyone in the drought-stricken state.
Environment
Sep 10, 2015
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Not everyone has the ability to sing. But is everyone capable of hearing when a song is out of tune? "Pop Idol", "The Voice of Germany"… there are many music casting shows and talent contests based on viewers' voting. ...
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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Are you feeling too cold right now? Too warm? Is your office's air a little stale today? On average, Americans spend 90 percent of the day indoors, in a controlled environment. Controlling that environment, at least in the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 10, 2015
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Human intelligence and knowledge depends on how we collect and use sharable resources, according to scientists from The University of Manchester.
Other
Sep 10, 2015
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In a modern, multicore chip, every core—or processor—has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can access.
Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have found that recent and projected increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide have impacted, Artemisia annua, a common roadside weed in the United States. ...
Environment
Sep 10, 2015
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen's 10-day 'iriss' mission to the International Space Station includes many technology demonstrations and scientific experiments. His first scientific task on arriving at the weightless research ...
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2015
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Samsung Electronics announced that it is mass producing the industry's first 12-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4 (low power, double data rate 4) mobile DRAM, based on its advanced 20-nanometer (nm) process technology.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Sep 10, 2015
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Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that one gene mutation in a single species can trigger dramatic changes in whole biological communities; changes can be as great as those caused by the extinction of ...
Ecology
Sep 10, 2015
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