Well-maintained pastures prevent erosion, protect water and, as it turns out, can restore the soil's organic matter much more quickly than previously thought, according to a team of researchers from the University of Georgia ...
Environment
May 12, 2015
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A team of neuroscientists and bioengineers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have created a miniature, fiber-optic microscope designed to peer deeply inside a living brain.
Optics & Photonics
May 12, 2015
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NASA has selected 15 proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction ...
Space Exploration
May 12, 2015
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Starting life as the child of impoverished immigrant parents is tough enough in America's traditional gateway cities for immigration.
Social Sciences
May 12, 2015
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After selling millions of Americans their mobile phones, Verizon now wants to capture their eyeballs, too.
Business
May 12, 2015
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Since the end of the Great Recession in early 2010, the economy has rebounded, adding nearly 11.5 million jobs and increasing employment above pre-recession levels. In the last year alone, the nation generated more than one ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2015
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For the past 20 years, a large portion of the particles measured in the atmosphere were missing from models. At best, models were able to explain one-tenth of the carbon-rich secondary organic aerosols, or SOA, measured in ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2015
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They call them frogmen. Their job is to climb into 8-foot-deep pit latrines, empty them with a bucket, then cart away mountains of human waste.
Engineering
May 12, 2015
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16
From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace.
Space Exploration
May 12, 2015
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42
The parakeets that have invaded Europe and North America over the last forty to fifty years, creating massive nests in many urban areas, seem to have originated from the same small geographical area in South America. In addition, ...
Ecology
May 12, 2015
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