Flood polices need a comprehensive overhaul instead of small-scale tinkering, according to academics from The University of Manchester and the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Environment
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A team of scientists from Hokkaido University and the multinational electronics company TDK Corporation in Japan has developed a method to improve the insulating properties of the oxynitride perovskite SrTaO2N for potential ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2016
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A new wall-climbing drone can approach any type of structure by flying and sticking to the target and utitlizing a pose change and perching mechanism.
Robotics
Mar 16, 2016
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One foggy spring morning just after a hard rain, Park Williams was tromping through the woods deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains. Toiling down a steep slope, he supposedly was keeping a simultaneous eye out for rattlesnakes, ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2016
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Farmers depend on insurance to cope with the enormous risk and cost it takes to coax crops from the ground. Unpredictable weather and rampaging pests all figure into the insurance rates farmers pay for economic protection, ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2016
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The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2016
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A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that when the primary wage earner in a marriage claims Social Security can significantly affect whether that person's spouse becomes impoverished in later life.
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2016
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A close-up of the engineering model of ESA's International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM) that will mate spacecraft with an airtight seal. Whereas present docking systems are passive and rely on the spacecraft to push ...
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2016
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Snapping shrimps, the loudest invertebrate in the ocean, may be silenced under increasing ocean acidification, a University of Adelaide study has found.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2016
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The light olefins ethylene, propylene, and butylene are key building blocks for chemical industry, and are starting materials for making plastics, synthetic fibers, and coatings. They are usually made from petroleum. In the ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2016
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