While Congress considers repealing a law requiring country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry, marketing researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that such labels influence consumer perceptions ...
Economics & Business
Jul 16, 2015
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Scientists have directed a common bacterium to produce more of a valuable fatty acid, lauric acid, than it typically does. The achievement is noteworthy not simply because of the increased production of fatty acid, which ...
Biotechnology
Jul 16, 2015
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Full replay of the launch coverage of the MSG-4 satellite, which lifted off on an Ariane launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21:42 GMT (23:42 CEST) on 15 July 2015.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2015
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Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that's injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2015
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This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory ...
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2015
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The engineers of ESA's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory – tasked with studying candidate parts for space missions – have an armoury of specialist equipment to turn to, including one very heavy piece of kit.
Engineering
Jul 16, 2015
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A new paper by a team of researchers that includes Haifeng Gao, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, presents, for the first time, a one-pot, one-batch synthesis of hyperbranched ...
Polymers
Jul 16, 2015
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Sibling suns – made famous in the "Star Wars" scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset – and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and Cornell astronomers are presenting new ideas ...
Astronomy
Jul 16, 2015
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A newly discovered family of chemical structures, published in Nature today, could increase the value of biogas and natural gas that contains carbon dioxide.
Materials Science
Jul 16, 2015
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Researchers have developed a new method for growing 'hybrid' crystals at the nanoscale, in which quantum dots – essentially nanoscale semiconductors – of different materials can be sequentially incorporated into a host ...
Nanophysics
Jul 16, 2015
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