One of the guiding principles of rehabilitating disturbed landscapes and mine sites – that if you restore their plant diversity, the animals that once lived there will return – does not always hold true, a landmark Australian ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2013
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Australia has managed to improve equity in education, but that hasn't stopped it slipping on performance according to new research from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2013
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Silicon, the material of high-tech devices from computer chips to solar cells, requires a surface coating before use in these applications. The coating "passivates" the material, tying up loose atomic bonds to prevent oxidation ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2013
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Arctic sea ice volume has declined by 36 per cent in the autumn and 9 per cent in the winter between 2003 and 2012, a UK-led team of scientists has discovered.
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2013
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s research funding dwindles in the United States and abroad, scientists need to rethink their methods for supporting the most promising projects—and how they communicate the meaningful results of that work to the public, ...
Other
Feb 13, 2013
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Ceramics are hard, chemically inert and can withstand high temperatures. These attributes make them ideal structural components in engines, high-performance disk brakes and medical implants. However, as ceramics are also ...
Materials Science
Feb 13, 2013
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A team of researchers from Russia, Spain, Belgium, the U.K. and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced findings last week that may represent a breakthrough in applications of superconductivity.
Superconductivity
Feb 13, 2013
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NASA engineers have demonstrated the agency's Orion spacecraft can land safely if one of its three main parachutes fails to inflate during deployment.
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Nanotechnology is such a new innovation that no one is really sure what will come of it. Predictions range from the ability to reproduce things like diamonds and food, to the world being devoured by self-replicating ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 13, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Advances in miniaturization have made electronic devices cheaper and more powerful, but these procedures also create new challenges for materials scientists. For example, traditional silicon dioxide insulators ...
Materials Science
Feb 13, 2013
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