'Report card' gives Mississippi River basin a D+
A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns.
Environment
Oct 14, 2015
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Uber slip exposes data of some US drivers
Uber on Wednesday confirmed that a software slip briefly exposed personal data of hundreds of US drivers.
Security
Oct 14, 2015
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To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars
Launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas: A new MIT study suggests that a Martian mission may lighten its launch load considerably by refueling on the moon.
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2015
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New concept to help set priorities in water management
The basic principle behind most strategies aimed at renaturalising ecosystems is to increase biodiversity by restoring natural habitat structure, which should lead to improved ecosystem services in the process. These projects ...
Ecology
Oct 14, 2015
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Biodiversity stabilizes ecosystems during climate extremes
Can biodiversity help protect ecosystems from extreme conditions? That question is much on the minds of scientists and policy makers as a changing climate brings more wildly swinging conditions at the same time human activities ...
Ecology
Oct 14, 2015
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Using experts 'inexpertly' leads to policy failure, warn researchers
The accuracy and reliability of expert advice is often compromised by "cognitive frailties", and needs to be interrogated with the same tenacity as research data to avoid weak and ill-informed policy, warn two leading risk ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2015
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Rising seas will drown mangrove forests
Mangrove forests around the Indo-Pacific region could be submerged by 2070, international research published today says.Even with relatively low sea-level rises, many mangrove forests had a poor outlook said Professor Catherine ...
Environment
Oct 14, 2015
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125-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals the early evolution of hair and spines
The discovery of a new 125-million-year-old fossil mammal in Spain has pushed back the earliest record of preserved mammalian hair structures and inner organs by more than 60 million years.
Archaeology
Oct 14, 2015
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New research could revolutionize flexible electronics, solar cells
Binghamton University researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly process that enables unprecedented spatial control over the electrical properties of graphene oxide. This two-dimensional nanomaterial has the potential ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 14, 2015
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Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number
Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians at Emory University have discovered ...
Mathematics
Oct 14, 2015
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