Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) have designed a system that speeds up online administrative procedures by automatically verifying and validating printed electronic documents, a process that had ...
Engineering
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"The current flooding which has affected much of southern England, particularly the Thames and Severn catchments and the Somerset Levels region is severe, with a number of flood levels much higher than people remember, however ...
Environment
Feb 17, 2014
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Scientists have pieced together sections of DNA from 12 individual cells to sequence the genome of a bacterium known to live in healthy human mouths.
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2014
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When every extra expense makes a difference in profitability, farmers often wonder which management decisions are worth the extra cost.
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2014
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(Phys.org) —In a three-year GM research trial, scientists boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight, their most important disease, without deploying fungicides.
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2014
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Imagine you knew everything about the current universe – the state of every single particle – and all the laws governing the universe's evolution. Endowed with such knowledge, you could then predict the future, right? ...
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2014
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New research suggests that unless drastic action is taken to control dingo incursions, rangeland production of wool and sheep meat in Western Australia will disappear within 30 to 40 years.
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2014
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This Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the young star cluster NGC 346 highlights a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region. Evidence from radio, optical and ultraviolet telescopes suggests ...
Astronomy
Feb 17, 2014
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There are so many galaxies in the universe that if you point a telescope in any direction in the night's sky you are bound to see some.
Astronomy
Feb 17, 2014
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Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7—a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just over 75,000 light-years away from us on ...
Astronomy
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