A century-long study in the Oregon Cascades may cause scientists to revise the textbook on how forests grow and die, accumulate biomass and store carbon.
Environment
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have helped untangle a long-standing mystery of astrophysics: why iron is found spattered throughout Earth's mantle, the roughly 2,000-mile thick region between Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has participated as a research partner in a project in which Finnish companies have developed increasingly better road weather and winter maintenance services, and combined them into ...
Engineering
Mar 18, 2015
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Cracked your screen or dropped your phone in the toilet? No problem, if you buy HTC's new One smartphone.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 18, 2015
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Water, water every where, Nor any drop to drink.
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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When Wesley Huffmaster spotted a big, brightly colored and boldly patterned spider near his home in Colbert last fall, he knew it was unusual. Analysis of its physical characteristics and DNA by scientists at the Georgia ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2015
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured this solar image on March 16, 2015, which clearly shows two dark patches, known as coronal holes. The larger coronal hole of the two, near the southern pole, covers an estimated ...
Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2015
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When we think about unsafe drinking water, our minds may leap to contaminated wells in developing nations or flood damage to sewage systems. It's easy to feel removed from these issues. Yet each year viruses, bacteria and ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Queen Mary University, London, have shown that changes in body shape in 'skin-breathing' aquatic animals could explain why animals use energy more slowly as they grow.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2015
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In a first of its kind study, an international research team onboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor will conduct a data gathering expedition using coordinated groups of underwater robotics.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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