The UK has experienced serious and sustained flooding three times in ten years: in 2007, 2013-14 and, most recently, December 2015 to January 2016. This suggests to me an escalation in severity and frequency that is consistent ...
Environment
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Maybe you're having a busy week at work, and you get a call from home: "You know that fault on the sequential shunt unit? Looks like this Friday would be a good time to get it sorted. It'll be easy to fix – just one bolt ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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At first glance, this scene may look like a reptilian eye or a textured splash of orange paint, but it is actually a fish-eye view of Saturn's moon Titan. It was acquired at a height of about 5 km as ESA's Huygens probe, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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New research findings suggest small marine organisms swimming in concentrated "hotspots" likely contribute to the mixing of water needed to distribute nutrients for ocean species.
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2016
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Machine-learning technology developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory played a key role in the discovery of supernova ASASSN-15lh, an exceptionally powerful explosion that was 570 billion times brighter than the sun and ...
Astronomy
Jan 15, 2016
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College students spend more class time than ever playing with their smartphones and other digital devices, according to a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2016
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Scientists with NASA's New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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Smaller, lighter weight, better performing and more multifunctional miniature antennas with increased performance may be possible using smart materials, according to Penn State engineers. One particularly promising application ...
Engineering
Jan 15, 2016
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During its final close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft revisited a landscape, and a mystery, that it had originally glimpsed more than 10 years earlier.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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Myth-buster fans have likely heard of the phenomenon of interlocking pages of two phonebooks and discovering that they are impossible to pull apart.
General Physics
Jan 15, 2016
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