For physicists, loss of magnetisation in permanent magnets can be a real concern. In response, the Japanese company Sumitomo created the strongest available magnet—one offering ten times more magnetic energy than previous ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2016
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Vitamins A and C aren't just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their international collaborators have discovered how vitamins A and C act to modify the epigenetic 'memory' ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 12, 2016
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In a paper this week for the journal Nature Energy, a Los Alamos National Laboratory research team demonstrates an important step in taking quantum dot, solar-powered windows from the laboratory to the construction site by ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 12, 2016
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New research into the effects of ocean acidification suggests that, while marine organisms may be able to cope with the effects of climate change in the short term, the biological cost of doing so may be too high to guarantee ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2016
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New drone pictures reveal that a southern right whale mother named Scooter dramatically shrank in width – by 43 centimetres in just two months – as she fattened her calf.
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2016
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While the past may seem like a foreign country, the future is a more mysterious land. Full of potential and promise, tragedy and heartache, people have always sought glimpses of a map of the future. Visions of Christmases-Yet-to-Come ...
Other
Oct 12, 2016
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) 2016 Threat Report, released today, has some concerning details about the state of Australia's cyber security. The report highlights the ubiquitous nature of cyber crime in Australia, ...
Security
Oct 12, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of space scientists at the University of Michigan has discovered a dwarf planet that is approximately half the size of Pluto and twice as far from the sun. The sighting was reported by NPR, which interviewed ...
Samsung has finally called a halt to its production of the Galaxy Note 7. Following on from its earlier problems with the devices spontaneously setting alight, it seems that the replacement also suffered from the same problem. ...
Business
Oct 12, 2016
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A team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery.
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2016
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