Did you know that children spend just 14 per cent of their waking time between Kindergarten and the end of Grade 12 in school?
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2017
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Crib-biting in horses – a distressing compulsive disorder – might be related to a lack of trace element selenium in their diets, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Researchers have designed a new type of mirror that reflects light in a completely different way than conventional mirrors do. The new mirror, called a chiral meta-mirror, has potential applications for information ...
Three species of non-photosynthetic plants rely mainly on camel crickets to disperse their seeds, according to new research from Project Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science). These ...
Ecology
Nov 14, 2017
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Officials have postponed the California launch of a new type of U.S. weather satellite intended to improve the accuracy of extended forecasts.
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2017
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Science has always drawn people and nations to Antarctica. But territorial claims and political tensions are also part of the history of that continent.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2017
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Remember the movie "Moneyball"? The Oakland A's are struggling, financially and on the baseball field. Then they introduce an innovative system for figuring out which players will improve team performance. Moving away from ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2017
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Scrapbooks or social networks are collections of mostly unsorted data. The search for single elements in very large data volumes, i.e. for the needle in the data haystack, is extremely complex for classical computers. Scientists ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 14, 2017
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Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf. Constant high spin-up rate of a star of this type, located ...
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2017
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Molten rock pulses deep inside Earth, and WA scientists are studying it to help us to understand volcanic activity around the world.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2017
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