A new research article, with lead authors from the University of Gothenburg, gives indications of the best places in Iceland to build thermal power stations.
Earth Sciences
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Solid waste management is growing as a major problem in urban Sri Lanka with a rising population and rapid urbanization. The present system of open dumping has caused environmental and public health hazards, a research study ...
Environment
Jan 19, 2017
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while advanced wood-burning cookstoves can provide benefits to the environment and climate, these benefits are ...
Environment
Jan 19, 2017
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Recently paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman suggested that humans may have had a significant impact on the Earth's climate already thousands of years ago—through carbon and methane emissions originating from biomass burning ...
Environment
Jan 19, 2017
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An international collaboration between Osaka University and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland is investigating the repair process of a serious form of DNA damage that can lead to ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2017
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Sea lion hunting by the Europeans at the Atlantic coasts of South America started in the 19th Century and continued up to the second half of the 20th century in Argentina and Uruguay. The practice changed nutrition guidelines ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2017
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In the 1930s Alan Turing imagined a "universal computing machine" capable of computing nearly anything. Today, that universality is the backbone of the information age: Turing-like computers are running governments, businesses, ...
Security
Jan 19, 2017
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Two students attend the same college. One is from a low-income background, while the other's family is in the top 20 percent of earners nationwide. When it comes to annual earnings in their mid-thirties, which student is ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2017
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Dogs love "walkies." And unless it's pouring with rain and blowing a gale, so do their owners. But there's much more to this daily routine than you might think. In fact, it's actually a complex process of negotiation, which ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2017
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A consortium of researchers today announced the development of a universal, free, and open-source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles. The team issued a challenge to security experts everywhere to try ...
Security
Jan 19, 2017
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