Tiny zircon crystals clue to volcanic super-eruptions
Australia could have been home to some of Earth's largest ever volcanic eruptions more than 100 million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2016
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First mass production of system-on-chip with 10-nanometer finFET technology
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has commenced mass production of System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET technology for which would make it first in the industry.
Hardware
Oct 18, 2016
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Recognizing scientific literacy and illiteracy
Scientific literacy – what it is, how to recognize it, and how to help people achieve it through educational efforts, remains a difficult topic. The latest attempt to inform the conversation is a recent National Academy ...
Other
Oct 18, 2016
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Two new studies confirm the 'endogenosymbiosis' hypothesis
Endogenosymbiosis, such as the capacity of "gene carriers" (viruses, retrovirus and bacteriophages) to share parts of their genomes in an endogenous symbiotic relationship with their hosts, was proposed in 2015 by Roberto ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2016
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Netflix, Amazon battle over German Cold War spy dramas
Netflix and Amazon were facing off for a Cold War clash of two German spy series Tuesday after the phenomenal international success of espionage drama "Deutschland 83".
Business
Oct 18, 2016
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Self-driving car hits truck in Singapore; no injuries
A self-driving car with two engineers on board was switching lanes in Singapore when it hit a truck Tuesday, authorities said. No one was hurt.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 18, 2016
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Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London abruptly cut him off from the ...
Other
Oct 18, 2016
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Fate of nano- and microplastic in rivers explained
Very tiny plastic particles of micro and nano size are difficult to measure in the environment to assess exposure risks. Researchers of Wageningen University & Research now provide the first mechanistic modelling study on ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2016
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How an army of engineers battles contamination and sleep deprivation to take Large Hadron Collider to new heights
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest particle accelerator, and experiments like this have reached a scale where physicists are no longer able to build them alone. Instead, qualified engineers now lead ...
General Physics
Oct 18, 2016
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The Brazilian titan
Sometimes the greatest dinosaur discoveries are just lying waiting to be found in a museum cupboard.
Archaeology
Oct 18, 2016
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