On a small island off the coast of Iceland, 173 years ago, a sequence of tragic events took place that would lead to the loss of an iconic bird: the great auk.
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A new species of ancient bird has been discovered by a trio of researchers working in the New Mexico desert—its fossilized remains were found in the Nacimiento Formation in the San Juan Basin. In their paper ...
A University of Southampton academic has called for a concerted global effort to combat the threat posed by sea level changes, ahead of a major international conference next week.
Environment
Jul 11, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Two teams of researchers in China have advanced the distance that entangled particles can be used to send information, including encryption keys. In their papers, both uploaded to the arXiv preprint sever, the ...
Two to three kilometres beneath the surface of Australia's Northern Territory sits buried energy. The layered rock formations known as the Velkerri Shale were recently estimated to contain over 118 trillion cubic feet of ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2017
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The peace and quiet that envelope a lone hiker on a leaf-riddled trail or a rock climber perched on the top of a cliff seem a world away from the noise of a social media feed. But Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) ...
Engineering
Jul 11, 2017
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Scientists at University of Malaya, Malaysia, have found that the seagrass meadows in Johor harbor three times more juvenile fish than coral reefs. They also found that the dugong herds there prefer certain types of meadows ...
Environment
Jul 11, 2017
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By using advanced lighting and automated shades, scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that occupants on one floor of a high-rise office building in New York ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 11, 2017
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Racetrack memory is a potential next-generation solution for our digital storage devices. However, current experiments using single-layer ferromagnetic nanowires are less efficient than expected. New research published in ...
Nanophysics
Jul 11, 2017
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Over a century since scientists first observed that cells and their nuclei grow at a constant ratio to each other, researchers are now closer to finding out how.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2017
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