Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country's online world in what critics call a heavy-handed—and so far unsuccessful—attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram.
Internet
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In 1907, a statistician named Francis Galton recorded the entries from a weight-judging competition as people guessed the weight of an ox. Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found that while individual guesses varied ...
Mathematics
Apr 18, 2018
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With summer approaching, "sea and sun" might conjure up images of a beach trip. But for scientists, the interactions of the two have big implications for the climate and for the formation of tiny droplets, or aerosols, that ...
Materials Science
Apr 18, 2018
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Probably the last place anyone would want to find airborne polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs) is in the kitchen, yet that's exactly where scientists detected their presence, according to a new report in ACS' journal ...
Environment
Apr 18, 2018
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A large team of researchers has conducted a five-year research program in China aimed at measuring the amount of carbon sequestered by environmental resources in that country. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
A trio of researchers, one with Bloorview Research Institute in Canada, the other two with the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands, has found that human laryngeal muscles are less well developed than articulatory ...
Look around your home or garden, or while out for a walk in the bush, and you'll soon find plenty of ants of all shapes and sizes making their way around the place.
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2018
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Would you trust a car that does the driving for you? Do you trust the adaptive cruise control available in newer cars? What about the traction control feature? Would you trust a car to brake for you in an emergency?
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 18, 2018
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Community-based service professionals think that helping clients navigate a financial crisis—such as foreclosure—is a good idea.
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2018
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Commercially available since the 1970s, the lithium-ion battery is now the workhorse power source in many applications. It can be found in cell phones, laptops and electric vehicles. Yet, much about the basic science taking ...
Materials Science
Apr 18, 2018
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