Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will team up to develop an innovative mobile app to help identify plant species in the field. The app also will enable botanical garden and herbarium visitors ...
Other
Mar 14, 2013
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Wild pollinators – primarily wild bees, flies, and other insects – are at least as important, and often more efficient, at pollinating agricultural crops than domestic honey bee colonies, according to two new studies ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Predictability is often used synonymously with "boring," as in that story or that outcome was soooo predictable. For practitioners of synthetic biology seeking to engineer valuable new microbes, however, predictability ...
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2013
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Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of the world's first optical-transmission technology that can achieve 100 Gbps transmission speeds using widely available, conventional components intended for 10 Gbps ...
Telecom
Mar 14, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Blue-glowing diamond crystals hold promise for expanding the research capacity of SLAC's X-ray laser by divvying up its pulses for use in separate, simultaneous experiments.
General Physics
Mar 14, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Materials scientists have been for some time preparing artificial ceramic systems that simply do not exist in nature, allowing scientists to engineer particularly interesting and even technologically applicable ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 14, 2013
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NASA missed the chance to visit Halley's Comet in 1986 when the famed sentinel swung close to Earth, as it does every 76 years. Luckily for history, the Europeans flew Giotto past it on this day (March 13) in 1986, and some ...
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2013
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The U.S. Navy envisions the ship of the future having electromagnetic devices such as antennas integrated directly into the load-carrying structure, and researchers at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials ...
Engineering
Mar 14, 2013
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Our changing use of the land may have been taking the edge off hot days, scientists say.
Environment
Mar 14, 2013
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How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular "look" has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx. The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by a single rigid structure, ...
Materials Science
Mar 14, 2013
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