Copper is so valuable that its theft from worksites and power substations has become a national problem. Replacing the lost copper with new metal produced by the traditional method of cooking copper sulfide ores requires ...
Materials Science
May 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers at Zhejiang University in China has found a way for players to improve their odds of winning when playing the hand game rock-paper-scissors. In their paper they've uploaded to the preprint ...
The first systematic study of Canadian television commercials, conducted by sociologists Shyon Baumann and Loretta Ho from the University of Toronto Mississauga, shows that despite the country's multicultural make-up, visible ...
Social Sciences
May 2, 2014
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Can engineering help people live better lives? Can it help to preserve our most deeply held values? University of Kentucky researcher Samson Cheung thinks so. He researches how technology can be used to help people in very ...
Engineering
May 2, 2014
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One of Charles Darwin's hypotheses posits that closely related species will compete for food and other resources more strongly with one another than with distant relatives, because they occupy similar ecological niches. Most ...
Evolution
May 2, 2014
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Seen from our planet, the flash could be brighter than a multitude of suns—and might be followed by a ruined ozone layer, an upsurge in radiation, and a wave of cancers and mutations in humans and other creatures that would ...
Astronomy
May 2, 2014
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Most of the time, maps help you get from point A to point B. But when it comes to geopolitics, maps have long been used as much more than way finders.
Social Sciences
May 2, 2014
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Researchers from the MESA+ and MIRA research institutes of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technology for the generation of imploding microbubbles (cavitation) with precise control, both in place ...
Polymers
May 2, 2014
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For the past 5 million years, erosion rates in the Alps have been higher than before. A new study links the increase to processes within the Earth's interior, thus refuting the hypothesis that the phenomenon is related to ...
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2014
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It's an ongoing debate for online publications: How much content should be free and how much should go behind a paywall?
Economics & Business
May 2, 2014
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