In the quest for renewable fuels, scientists are taking lessons from a humble bacterium that fills our oceans and covers moist surfaces the world over. While the organism captures light to make food in a process called photosynthesis, ...
Biochemistry
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An Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, Arabsat-6B and GSAT-15, into their planned orbits.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2015
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The first supply aircraft in over six months landed at Europe's Concordia station on 6 November, bringing long-awaited equipment, food – including fresh fruit – and replacement personnel.
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2015
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As Earth's population grows toward a projected 9 billion by 2050 and climate change puts growing pressure on the world's agriculture, researchers are turning to technology to help safeguard the global food supply.
Environment
Nov 11, 2015
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App developers could see the energy footprint of their programs on smartphone batteries reduced by participating in a program created by a Purdue-related software startup that promises to find an energy optimization plan ...
Software
Nov 11, 2015
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A Stony Brook University-led team of evolutionary biologists has discovered that the oldest known nectar-drinking bat fossil, Palynephyllum antimaster, was probably omnivorous. They determined this by analyzing only a single ...
Archaeology
Nov 11, 2015
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On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (12 November 1865), a long-held mystery surrounding the true identity of a silhouette suspected to be of the Victorian novelist has been solved.
Computer Sciences
Nov 11, 2015
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Purdue University is collaborating with General Motors to develop a new type of energy-absorbing material that might be 3-D printed and that could have an impact in areas ranging from earthquake engineering to safer football ...
Materials Science
Nov 11, 2015
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The addition of the 800GB (gigabyte) Seagate SAS SSDs will significantly boost Comet's data analytics capability by expanding its node-local storage capacity for data-intensive workloads. Pairs of the drives will be added ...
Hardware
Nov 11, 2015
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Parathyroid Hormone-like Hormone is a relevant protein in the biology and treatment of several malignancies. A work in Nanomedicine, headed by Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group led by Prof. Arben Merkoçi from the Institut ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 11, 2015
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