Smoke from forest fires might contribute to more than half of certain gritty air pollution events in the continental U.S. during the summer, and as much as 20 percent of those events throughout the year, according to new ...
Earth Sciences
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Young people are almost twice as likely to need social welfare payments if their parents have a history of receiving such assistance themselves, according to new research from the University of Melbourne.
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a miniature device capable of producing laser-like beams of a particular kind of electromagnetic wave called a surface plasmon. Surface plasmons can be focused much more tightly than ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 17, 2017
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Walk around any city neighborhood and chances are it looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Thanks to growing urbanization, cities globally are rapidly expanding and accounting for more of our world's population, gross domestic ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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Yale scientists have described the atomic structure of a protein that is the key tool in efforts by synthetic biologists to expand the genetic code.
Biochemistry
Oct 17, 2017
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Given the growing number of users and the widening range of devices, streaming is no longer viable in its current form owing to the substantial amount of power and storage capacity it requires. But researchers at EPFL's Embedded ...
Telecom
Oct 17, 2017
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The most intense laser in the world is about to get a power upgrade with $2 million from the National Science Foundation.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 17, 2017
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Economic progress can cause people to feel dispossessed and angry if they don't feel like they are also advancing, according to a study.
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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Since its introduction in the 1977 film "Star Wars," the Death Star has remained one of science fiction's most iconic figures. The image of Alderaan's destruction at the hands of the Death Star's superlaser is burned into ...
Optics & Photonics
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Sunlight and microbes interact to degrade dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in surface waters, but scientists cannot currently predict the rate and extent of this degradation in either dark or light conditions. A recent study ...
Environment
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