An international team of physicists is working to ascertain more about the fundamental physical laws that are at work in a process known as convection, which occurs in a boiling pot of water as well as in the turbulent movement ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2012
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(Phys.org)—As sea ice in the Arctic continues to shrink during this century, more than two thirds of the area with sufficient snow cover for ringed seals to reproduce also will disappear, challenging their survival, scientists ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2012
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Long mandatory minimum sentences or strong limits on judicial discretion can counter-productively reduce the incentives of prison inmates to engage in rehabilitative behavior, thereby raising recidivism rates, according to ...
Economics & Business
Sep 17, 2012
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Biologists and informaticists at Indiana University have produced one of the most extensive pictures ever of mutation processes in the DNA sequence of an organism, elucidating important new evolutionary information about ...
Biotechnology
Sep 17, 2012
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U.S. adults repeatedly rate bullying as a major health problem for U.S. children. But a new poll from the University of Michigan shows adults have different views about what bullying behaviors should prompt schools to take ...
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2012
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(Phys.org)—The discovery of a new gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants.
Biotechnology
Sep 17, 2012
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Google on Monday announced that it bought the company behind photo-sharing application Snapseed in a move evidently aimed at countering Facebook's acquisition of Instagram.
Business
Sep 17, 2012
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The Flame virus believed to be part of a cyberwarfare effort against Iran was developed as early as 2006 and is linked to at least three other malware programs, a new analysis said Monday.
Internet
Sep 17, 2012
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The European meteorological satellite Metop-B was put into orbit Monday by a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the space agency Roskosmos said.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2012
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(AP)—Space shuttle Endeavour apparently doesn't want to leave home.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2012
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