Green tea's popularity has grown quickly in recent years. Its fans can drink it, enjoy its flavor in their ice cream and slather it on their skin with lotions infused with it. Now, the tea could have a new, unexpected role—to ...
Materials Science
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Job recruiters may review hundreds of online resumes for a position, often screening them quickly and discarding those that are not appropriate. An applicant's email address can greatly impact first impressions and affect ...
Economics & Business
Mar 18, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers working in the Florida Everglades, with affiliations to several institutions in the state, has found that an invasive species of snake, the Burmese python, appears to be responsible ...
(Phys.org)—The possibility that other universes exist beyond our own universe is tantalizing, but seems nearly impossible to test. Now a group of physicists has suggested that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest ...
"Consensual unions," two people living in the same dwelling in a relationship akin to marriage, have been an integral part of family life in Latin America for centuries. In fact, in Latin America, legal marriages and consensual ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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In early January, almost 3 million gallons of wastewater from a hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") operation in North Dakota spilled into nearby creeks. The accident highlighted ongoing concerns about what's in fracking fluids ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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With a population likely to grow 27% by 2031, putting an end to urban sprawl in Greater Montreal appears impossible for the short to medium term. But it is possible to slow the pace of urban sprawl by harnessing the full ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2015
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The Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry (CIDETEQ) in Mexico has obtained biogas from "garbage or organic waste", having replaced part of the natural gas used by the Pilgrim's company in the ...
Energy & Green Tech
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With his half-acre banana plantation, Charles Semakula can put his family's favourite food on the table every day.
Biotechnology
Mar 18, 2015
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From light, airy, and spotless white to threatening and grey-black: Clouds are encountered in various forms. At the AIDA "cloud chamber", scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) study how clouds form and which ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2015
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