New research by the USDA Forest Service reveals the motivations, management activities, future plans, and challenges faced by the nearly 11 million families, individuals, trusts, and estates, referred to as family forest ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2016
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A new type of 3-D printing will make it possible for the first time to rapidly prototype and test polymer membranes that are patterned for improved performance, according to Penn State researchers.
Materials Science
Jun 2, 2016
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(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found that killer whale cultural groups have evolved to become genetically distinct from one another. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the ...
Shares in Silicon Valley titan Oracle fell more than four percent Thursday after a former accountant alleged in a whistle-blower lawsuit that she was pressed to exaggerate cloud-computing sales data.
Business
Jun 2, 2016
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A new rain frog species has been described from Amazonian Peru and the Amazonian foothills of the Andes. The frog, given the name Pristimantis pluvialis, was found by researchers from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2016
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Inaccessibility and mysticism surrounding the mist-veiled mountains of the central Andes make this region promising to hide treasures. With an area of 2197 km2, most of the Llanganates National Park, Ecuador, is nearly unreachable ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2016
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"What's that, Lassie? Timmy has fallen down the well?" Lassie was the clever dog that always used to save the day, but stories of clever pets such as skateboarding dogs are well known. It is also widely acknowledged that ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2016
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Nine scientists will share three $1 million prizes for discoveries in how the brain can change over time, how to move individual atoms around and how Albert Einstein was right again about the universe.
Other
Jun 2, 2016
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It was a startling scientific finding: Children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don't.
Other
Jun 2, 2016
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Sally Fields's famous Academy Award outburst of gratitude - "You like me, you really like me" - apparently holds true for customers who are asked to participate in retailer-sponsored Web panels, according to an article forthcoming ...
Economics & Business
Jun 2, 2016
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