Thousands of tiny frogs with bright green skin and big red eyes have found a safe haven from climate change in a Nicaraguan nature reserve.
Ecology
Sep 13, 2016
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The University of Nottingham is developing an artificially-intelligent sensor system to clean food manufacturing equipment more precisely, which could save £100m a year for the UK industry alone.
Engineering
Sep 13, 2016
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A Professor at the University of Strathclyde has had his name written among the stars, after an asteroid was named after him.
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2016
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Leaders often believe that they should show anger to make subordinates more compliant, thinking they will then be seen as more effective at work or within their organization. They also feel it is bad if they show emotions ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2016
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It is a very unusual kind of laser: researchers at the photonics institute at TU Wien (Vienna) have built a device which emits ultrashort flashes of infrared light with extremely high energy. "It is very hard to combine these ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 13, 2016
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The gusting westerly winds that dominate the climate in central Asia, setting the pattern of dryness and location of central Asian deserts, have blown mostly unchanged for 42 million years.A University of Washington geologist ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2016
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The electronic energy states allowed by quantum mechanics determine whether a solid is an insulator or whether it conducts electric current as a metal. Researchers at ETH have now theoretically predicted a novel material ...
General Physics
Sep 13, 2016
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Proteins organize themselves around our body cells through a self-induced force. They indent the cell membrane and thereby roll towards each other. This discovery provides new insights in processes like nutritional uptake ...
Biochemistry
Sep 13, 2016
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Materials with large dielectric constants—aka "high-K materials"—have recently garnered attention for their potential use within future generations of reduced-dimension semiconductor devices.
Condensed Matter
Sep 13, 2016
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Clinking your glass of beer often leaves its contents sloshing back and forth. Soon, though, the motion stops, your drink settles down, and you can take a sip without getting foam on your nose. It turns out that the foam ...
Soft Matter
Sep 13, 2016
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