Organic compounds in wastewater, such as dyes and pigments in industry effluents, are toxic or have lethal effect on aquatic living and humans. Increasing evidence has shown that the organic contaminants discharged from electroplating, ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 19, 2016
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Knowledge is the first step toward bringing police agencies and communities closer together, a Stanford scholar says.
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2016
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We often help others without weighing the costs and benefits—agreeing immediately to grant favors to friends, or taking on our romantic partners' burdens without question. People even risk their own lives for a stranger, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2016
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Artificial synthesis of natural products for medical and commercial use could be improved with new software developed by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. The system, ...
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2016
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Saturn's main rings, along with its and moons, are much brighter than most stars. As a result, much shorter exposure times (10 milliseconds, in this case) are required to produce an image and not saturate the detectors of ...
Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2016
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Here's a test for measuring partisanship in American politics today: Turn on C-SPAN and – without looking at the name of the lawmaker on screen – see how long it takes to tell whether the member of Congress is a Republican ...
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2016
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This striking perspective view from ESA's Mars Express shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars. This region sits south-west of a dark plain named Mare Serpentis (literally 'the sea of serpents'), which in ...
Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2016
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There are currently more than 900,000 small wind turbines in use worldwide and estimates suggest that could increase by 20 percent by 2020. But, there has been a lack of research on public opinion on these independent energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 19, 2016
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A team of scientists from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS have discovered new information on how the PIWIL2 human gene expresses itself. This breakthrough discovery could result in a diagnostic marker for determining ...
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2016
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Cars, rockets, cell phones and many other items could soon be manufactured faster, greener, less expensively and with more precision than traditional methods thanks to a ceramic engineering company commercializing a Purdue ...
Materials Science
Jul 19, 2016
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