Being bothered by gulls while eating our chips is a problem most city-dwellers have encountered. Now, scientists have reported in the journal Bird Study that concentrating on making food supplies less accessible may prove ...
Ecology
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An international group of researchers has published results from a recent research campaign (SO-239, March-April 2015) onboard the new German research vessel SONNE in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ, Central Eastern ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2016
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Growing up and dying, in constant and repeated cycles, is a key strategy for the success of the plant Carpobrotus edulis, an exotic and invasive species around the world, which invades new territories without leaving any ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2016
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Researchers at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) have succeeded in recovering important metals – lithium, cobalt and nickel – from battery waste with nearly 100 percent purity. Recovered metals will be needed ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 2, 2016
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Heat flow in atomically thin materials is strongly directional and now research from A*STAR indicates that this property could be employed to improve the performance of computer hard drives.
Nanophysics
Jun 2, 2016
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Michael David Martin specializes in analyzing genetic material. He works surrounded by envelopes with plants and pictures of speckled leaves that he is studying at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) ...
Biotechnology
Jun 2, 2016
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Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have analyzed the process of nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria, creating a mathematical model that reveals the patterns they form. In these patterns, approximately one ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2016
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Hitachi today announced that it has developed a basic artificial intelligence (AI) technology that analyzes huge volumes of Japanese text data on issues that are subject to debate, and presents in Japanese both affirmative ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 2, 2016
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The nearly intractable problem of wildfire risk in temperate forests of the western U.S. and elsewhere can be seen as a disease stemming from complex and problematic interactions between society and ecological systems.
Environment
Jun 2, 2016
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Prototyping of a new, ultrasensitive "eye" for dark matter is making rapid progress at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers and engineers have installed a small-scale version of the ...
General Physics
Jun 2, 2016
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