Lightweight components offer the aerospace and automotive industries the means to reduce energy consumption and emissions through the development of lighter vehicles, and provide other industrial sectors with flexible materials ...
Engineering
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What do disease-resistant pigs and the eradication of malaria have in common? These seemingly distant topics, both of which were extensively covered in the press this week, are actually just early glimpses of gene editing's ...
Biotechnology
Dec 11, 2015
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Scientists at UC Davis have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety. The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help breeders select for desired ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2015
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The Delaware Geological Survey has released a new technical report titled "Hydrogeology of a Rapid Infiltration Basin System at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware."
Environment
Dec 11, 2015
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A major study linking writing to undergraduate learning and development shows that three features of writing assignments—an interactive writing process, a meaning-making writing task and clear writing expectations—are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2015
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Switzerland has honest students: The vast majority of the students that were questioned were against pharmacological cognitive enhancement. Yet the topic should be addressed more actively by the universities, asks the study ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2015
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Wheatbelt farmers struggle to see a future in farming because of the effects of climate change on their lands and communities, a Murdoch University study has found.
Environment
Dec 11, 2015
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For the reactors used in the manufacture of LED's there are more promising materials than the ones currently in use, the researchers point out.
Soft Matter
Dec 11, 2015
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Programmed cell death – also known as apoptosis – is universal among higher organisms, and is a tightly regulated process that results in the disposal of damaged or unwanted cells. The latter variant is particularly important ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2015
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall. The dunes are on the rover's trek up the lower portion of a layered Martian mountain.
Space Exploration
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