After years of monitoring different experimental buildings, a group of researchers from the School of Architecture of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has developed a model that can estimate the thermal performance of vegetal ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 10, 2014
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One of Australia's most endearing marsupials, the tiny western pygmy possum, has been discovered for the first time in Albany's Torndirrup National Park by a research team from The University of Western Australia examining ...
Ecology
Dec 10, 2014
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Long-term studies in the Murchison and Goldfields have revealed populations of the aromatic sandalwood tree (Santalum spicatum) are at risk of dying out in some areas.
Ecology
Dec 10, 2014
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Last week, NASA mission controllers for the Mars rover Curiosity spied a piece of rock outcropping with tiny holes, veins and fractures in the rocks. It's common practice for the science team to assign names to these targets ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2014
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This year I have learnt more that it is probably healthy to know about crystal structures. I've learnt how you can turn a rabbit green with a protein, read up on French military history and marvelled at how a crystal structure ...
Materials Science
Dec 10, 2014
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The Congo Basin is an unruly ribbon of tropical forest: Over a million square miles spanning six countries in Central Africa, running inward along the equator from the continent's western coast. It is the second-largest contiguous ...
Ecology
Dec 10, 2014
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As the holidays draw near, many of us will hop on a plane to visit friends and family – or just get away from it all. Some will be subjected to a swab at the airport to test clothes and baggage for explosives. So how does ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 10, 2014
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IBM inventors have patented a technique that uses analytics to increase cloud computing performance and reduce costs by dynamically moving workloads—between or within cloud centers—based on an automatic analysis that ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 10, 2014
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If it's clear late on Saturday and Sunday nights (the nights of December 13th and 14th), keep a lookout high overhead for the "shooting stars" of the Geminid meteor shower. "The Geminids are usually one of the two best meteor ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2014
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New research has demonstrated that the 2011 Blackpool earth tremors during 'fracking' were induced on an ancient pre-existing fault.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2014
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