Thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, we've recently heard a great deal about how the Earth's climate is changing. The IPCC's cautious assessment of the situation is that ...
Space Exploration
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Marine turtle experts convene to discuss claims of mass turtle mortality off Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
Ecology
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Hidden cameras have captured images of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino on the Indonesian part of Borneo island, where it was thought to have long ago died out, the WWF said Wednesday.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2013
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Five additional chambers for high-pressure, high-temperature testing are now available for use at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).The deep water ocean chambers are capable of attaining pressures of 30,000 psig at a rated ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2013
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Albert Einstein's celebrated genius may be underappreciated, according to a new book by Yale physicist A. Douglas Stone: The father of relativity theory deserves far more credit than he gets for his insights into quantum ...
General Physics
Oct 2, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Physicists Lawrence Krauss and Frank Wilczek of Arizona State University and Australian National University, respectively, have uploaded a paper to the preprint server arXiv, in which they propose that it might ...
The fate of stingless bees in Brazil is so important that University of Kansas researcher Chris Brown risked life and limb to survey the vital pollinators in the state of Rondônia, which borders Bolivia in the southwestern ...
Ecology
Oct 2, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The number of people in Britain who are using the internet has risen, reaching 78% of the population aged 14 years and over as compared with 59% in 2003. Yet according to the latest survey of British internet ...
Internet
Oct 2, 2013
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Are integrated circuits "too good" for current technological applications? Christian Enz, the new Director of the Institute of Microengineering, backs the idea that perfection is overrated.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Oct 2, 2013
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The sky-high cost of housing in California is pushing many families into poverty, according to new research by Stanford's Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Public Policy Institute of California.
Social Sciences
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