In a general context of climate change, researchers at the Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive (CNRS/Université de Montpellier/Université Paul Valery/EPHE-PSL) and their international partners revealed the impact ...
Ecology
May 17, 2018
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Fueled by the rise of e-commerce and fast shipping services like Amazon, consumers have come to expect their goods at their doorstep in a matter of days and even hours—not weeks. This on-demand culture coincides with the ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 17, 2018
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Engineers at the University of Nottingham Malaysia have developed new technology to help the global palm oil processing industry reduce CO2 emissions and create renewable energy from its waste.
Energy & Green Tech
May 17, 2018
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The MINERvA collaboration analyzed data from the interactions of an antineutrino—the antimatter partner of a neutrino—with a nucleus. They were surprised to find evidence that antineutrinos interacted with pairs of particles ...
General Physics
May 17, 2018
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On March 29, 2018, World View's Stratollite high-altitude balloon lifted off from the company's launch facility in Tucson, Arizona, reaching a float altitude of 115,000 feet. The balloon was aloft for approximately five hours ...
Space Exploration
May 17, 2018
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Germany has restituted nine artefacts belonging to indigenous people in Alaska after determining they were plundered from graves.
Archaeology
May 17, 2018
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Denmark says online room-rental platform Airbnb will start to automatically report its users' deals to taxation authorities, the first country to do so.
Business
May 17, 2018
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A suborbital rocket was launched into space Thursday by a start-up in China's burgeoning commercial aeronautics industry, as private firms snap at the heels of their dominant American rivals.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2018
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Social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook have inspired a new method of describing how other species interact with one another.
Ecology
May 17, 2018
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On a grassy runway just outside of Madison, Grant Petty makes the final checks on his skeleton-framed airplane. Once ready, he hits the throttle and lurches forward. After a few 100 feet, the ultralight aircraft is airborne ...
Engineering
May 17, 2018
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