The Earth's continental topography reflects the balance between tectonics, climate, and their interaction through erosion. However, understanding the impact of individual factors on Earth's topography remains elusive. Professor ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2013
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A study published in Nature today describes the sugar beet reference genome sequence generated by researchers both from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the University ...
Biotechnology
Dec 19, 2013
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The question of accountability under national law for the wrongs committed by international companies has been debated and litigated for many years in many different courts and across many different countries. Often these ...
Business
Dec 19, 2013
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Scientists are using a one cubic kilometer block of ice at the South Pole to help unravel one of the great scientific mysteries of our time.
General Physics
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures.
Condensed Matter
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at Purdue University have successfully tested the conversion of large particles of pinewood char in a gasification process, a step necessary for the mass production of synthetic liquid fuel from ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 19, 2013
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Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that is extremely strong and conducts electricity well, is the thinnest material ever made. Researchers believe that it could be used as a transparent electrode in photovoltaic cells, ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 19, 2013
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A newly released white paper calls for new approaches for preserving scientific data and sustainable funding of domain repositories—data archives with ties to specific scientific communities.
Other
Dec 19, 2013
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Fossils can tell us lots about animals – their size, age or sex, which is mostly physical characteristics. Evidence about how they may have behaved is rare. But the 240m-year-old fossil dung that I found, along with my ...
Archaeology
Dec 19, 2013
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Research conducted by Professor Becky Francis, Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's, has found that around one in three (32 per cent) professional parents with children aged five to 16 has moved to an ...
Social Sciences
Dec 19, 2013
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