How Pokemon Go is helping road safety researchers
Pokemon Go is giving a glimpse of how gaming can keep drivers safer behind the wheel, according to QUT's Dr Ronald Schroeter.
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Image: Beaver Creek Fire in Colorado heats up
The Beaver Creek fire which is located 24 miles north of Walden, CO, erupted on June 19, 2016 under unknown circumstances. At present the fire has grown to almost 20,000 acres in size. As of July 12, and in spite of strong ...
Earth Sciences
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Brush control no help for water supplies, lake sedimentation
Brush control has many benefits, including restoration of wildlife habitat and potentially improved livestock grazing, but water supply enhancement should not necessarily be considered one of them.
Environment
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Changing colours of light
In a phenomenon known as mechanochromism, certain solid and liquid crystalline materials change their photoluminescence properties upon mechanical stimulation, such as grinding, ball-milling and crushing. Although such compounds ...
Materials Science
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Los Angeles is a metropolitan den for mountain lions
Los Angeles is one of only two megacities—Mumbai, India, is the other—where large predatory cats live among us, and they're closer to human development than you might think.
Ecology
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Europe's workhorse Sentinel ready for action
Getting the bigger picture on the health of our planet drew another step closer today as Europe's Sentinel-3A satellite was handed over to Eumetsat for operations.
Space Exploration
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Engineer creates new technique for testing nanomaterials
A University of California, Irvine engineer has invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit in first-ever experiments, showing the valuable role the materials could play in ...
Nanophysics
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Super-massive and supersonic black hole studied with the Sardinia Radio Telescope
Using the brand-new Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), a giant parabolic dish of 64 meters diameter, a team of astronomers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the University of Cagliari have produced ...
Astronomy
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Scientists find that sunspots rise to the surface much more slowly than predicted
Solar active regions consist of strongly magnetic sunspots and surrounding regions of more diffuse magnetic field. These regions are the origin of solar activity which controls space weather and causes beautiful phenomena ...
Space Exploration
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Five visible planets in alignment this August
This August, stargazers will have a rare opportunity to see five visible planets in the night sky at the same time with the naked eye.
Space Exploration
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