The difference between the Paris climate agreement's two alternative temperature targets – 1.5°C (2.7°F) and 2.0°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels – may be the difference between life and death for some coastal ...
Environment
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Bioplastics are often touted as being eco-friendly, but do they live up to the hype?
Environment
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The technological revolution has hit the doll aisle this holiday season in the form of artificial intelligence dolls. The dolls blend a physical toy with either a mobile device and app, or technological sensors, to simulate ...
Robotics
Dec 14, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at the University of Washington has created microscopic assemblies for packaging genetic material that they call synthetic nucleocapsids. The team hopes the assemblies can one day be used ...
To better understand how beneficial organisms (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role of bacterial that lives within its host (endosymbionts) has on fungal host reproduction, ...
Biotechnology
Dec 14, 2017
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An FIU professor has a plan to get rid of the blue tarps that inevitably appear on rooftops after a hurricane.
Engineering
Dec 14, 2017
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If you've ever bought a new iPhone, you've experienced good packaging.
Biotechnology
Dec 14, 2017
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Bayreuth and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in applying nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in experiments analysing material samples ...
General Physics
Dec 14, 2017
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The interaction of protein shell and active centre in hydrogen-producing enzymes is crucial for the efficiency of biocatalysts. A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion ...
Materials Science
Dec 14, 2017
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Geologists exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland's Isle of Skye found something out-of-this-world instead: ejecta from a previously unknown, 60 million-year-old meteorite impact. The discovery, the first meteorite impact described ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2017
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