Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the solar system while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather ...
Space Exploration
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(Phys.org)—Physicists have applied the ability of machine learning algorithms to learn from experience to one of the biggest challenges currently facing quantum computing: quantum error correction, which is used to design ...
The earliest forms of biological communication between single-celled organisms have survived evolution to exist in all species, including humans.
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2017
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If you're a healthy white man, live in the city and come from a wealthy family chances are you'll be better off than someone with a different ethnicity, gender, or location. We found it's factors like these that explain at ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2017
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Climate change has returned to the big screen with the release of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. It's the follow-up to his Oscar-winning documentary from 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, which raised awareness ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2017
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Around the globe, extreme events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves increasingly result in forced migration and loss of life, property, and security. Hot days are becoming hotter and more frequent, ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2017
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At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), research performed with collaborators from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at the State University ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 15, 2017
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Researchers from the VOX-Pol project at Dublin City University, together with colleagues from the University of Sussex, have found that the social media platform, Twitter is becoming less effective for the so-called 'Islamic ...
Internet
Aug 15, 2017
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The mercury found at very low concentrations in water is concentrated along the entire food chain, from algae via zooplankton to small fish and on to the largest fish—the ones we eat. Mercury causes severe and irreversible ...
Biotechnology
Aug 15, 2017
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ETH spin-off Adaptricity has developed software that can be used to analyse the increasingly intelligent power grids. It will soon be put to the entrepreneurial test, with sales of software licences set to begin this autumn.
Energy & Green Tech
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