Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the "Lone Star" lizard. The species—the first known example of a worm lizard in Texas—offers evidence that Texas acted as a subtropical ...
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2016
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NASA has received a record 18,300 resumes from people keen on becoming astronauts, the US space agency said.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2016
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From a preschool toy designed to teach pre-coding skills to a hands-on molecule-building set for older kids that works with an app, technology abounded at this year's Toy Fair.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 19, 2016
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Many of us know the feeling of standing in front of a subway map in a strange city, baffled by the multi-coloured web staring back at us and seemingly unable to plot a route from point A to point B.
General Physics
Feb 19, 2016
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New research published in Scientific Reports in February indicates that a warm ocean surface water prevailed during the last ice age, sandwiched between two major ice sheets just south of Greenland.
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2016
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Dartmouth College researchers have developed a digital "magic wand" to improve home healthcare and to prevent hackers from stealing your personal data.
Telecom
Feb 19, 2016
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When it comes to tallying emissions of greenhouse gases, there is no better substitute than directly measuring the atmosphere. But this important accounting can be obscured, and even confused, if measurements of the air-borne ...
Environment
Feb 19, 2016
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While a classical bit found in conventional electronics exists only in binary 1 or 0 states, the more resourceful quantum bit, or 'qubit' is represented by a vector, pointing to a simultaneous combination of the 1 and 0 states. ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 19, 2016
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The explosive interest in wearable personal tracking devices is generating huge amounts of so-called "quantified self" (QS) data, just waiting to be analyzed and used to improve human health. One solution for turning QS data ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2016
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HRL Laboratories today announced that researchers in its Sensors and Materials Laboratory have developed an active variable stiffness vibration isolator capable of 100x stiffness changes and millisecond actuation times, independent ...
Materials Science
Feb 19, 2016
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