Three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, safely returning to Earth after their flight back home was delayed for a month by a Russian rocket failure.
Space Exploration
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Small heat shock proteins ensure that other proteins do not clot, allowing the cell to survive stress. Defects in these "small helpers" are associated with medical conditions like cataracts and cancer. Now, scientists at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2015
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Pressure is a powerful thermodynamic variable that enables the structure, bonding and reactivity of matter to be altered. In materials science it has become an indispensable research tool in the quest for novel functional ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2015
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Federal regulators are going after people who raise money online through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe but don't follow through on their promises.
Internet
Jun 11, 2015
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A paper to be published this week in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems presents a mathematical model to study the effects of individual movement on infectious disease spread.
Mathematics
Jun 11, 2015
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Wealthy nations face a high and fast-growing threat of cyberattacks while risks from terrorism increasingly are confined to poorer, conflict-stricken countries, according to a defense outlook report by the consultancy Deloitte.
Security
Jun 11, 2015
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Theoretically predicted and now demonstrated experimentally for the first time using soil bacteria: weaker organisms can prevail against stronger ones—if they are superior in number. This acts as a driving mechanism in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2015
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CNN News called it a "good old-fashioned weather mystery." Scientists at Washington State University are calling it case closed.
Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, two with Ecole Polytechnique and the other with Université Paris, all in France, has created a computer model that is meant to show how it is that so much heat is in the sun's corona. ...
A study by researchers at the University of St Andrews has shed new light on the hunting behaviour of sharks using 'black box' technology.
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2015
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