A startup that plans to use high-altitude balloons to deploy rockets has successfully fired a test launch, moving closer to its goal of helping end the backlog of microsatellites that wait months or longer to "hitch" a ride ...
Engineering
Feb 13, 2019
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Businesses of the past operated like a rookie playing darts, throwing something and hoping it sticks.
Machine learning & AI
Feb 13, 2019
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Humans just love seeing animals demonstrate love: cuddly chimps grooming each other, say, or penguin pairs carefully passing their egg in the driving snow. Videos of cows joining dog packs or cats and birds becoming friends ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2019
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Stress and exhaustion dominate the lives of working mothers in the United States. And no wonder: Of all western industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks dead last for policies that support working mothers and their families.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2019
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Noise is a dangerous worldwide environmental pollutant: at normal levels found in cities it can induce annoyance, stress and fluctuations in sleep patterns which in turn increase the risk of type-2 diabetes, arterial hypertension, ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 13, 2019
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On a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean lies a geologic enigma. Some 4 million years ago, volcanic eruptions on the seabed piled lava upward almost two miles, until it broke above the waves. Then it kept piling up, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2019
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Veterinarians have a professional and moral obligation to reduce or prevent any negative health impacts of disorders in animals. But what if animals are bred with known disorders? And what if those disorders are a big part ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2019
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Combining Einstein's theory of relativity with one of the most powerful telescopes in the world has helped an international team of researchers measure where and how dark matter structures grow in the universe. Their analysis ...
Astronomy
Feb 13, 2019
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Developed countries need to "urgently" boost adult training and education programmes to deal with future mass job upheaval brought on by automation, the OECD said Wednesday.
Other
Feb 13, 2019
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Pay dispersion perceived as linked to an executive's individual performance (as in variable pay) is considered legitimate, and may promote knowledge-sharing and cooperation among top executives. On the contrary, when pay ...
Economics & Business
Feb 13, 2019
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