Researchers from The University of Western Australia's School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health have helped uncover how arch support in footwear affects the spring in your step - literally.
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Under laboratory conditions, mineral growth is a well understood physical process, and has been for a number of decades. In nature however, outside of the controlled confines of a lab, mineral formation is far more complex ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 20, 2016
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France-based music streaming service Deezer says it has raised 100 million euros ($109 million) from its two largest shareholders to fuel its expansion after abandoning plans for an initial public offering of stock last year.
Business
Jan 20, 2016
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A team of researchers from The University of Western Australia's Centre for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) have discovered that the seminal fluid of male bees kills the widespread sexually transmitted fungus Nosema apis, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications,Tokyo, report the ability to supply 60 watt power over a 300 meter optical fiber system, demonstrating the potential of optical feed systems using double-clad fibers ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 20, 2016
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Men continue to dominate a number of academic professions such as economics, but a Dartmouth College-University of Pennsylvania study shows the gender gap is shrinking in at least one research field—vision science.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2016
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Cutting-edge genome technology in Trinity College Dublin has cast more light on a mystery that has perplexed archaeologists for more than a decade. The origins of a set of Roman-age decapitated bodies, found by York Archaeological ...
Archaeology
Jan 20, 2016
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New research published last week in Journal of the Royal Society Interface examines the sniffing behaviour of terrestrial hermit crabs.
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2016
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Amorphous iron nanoparticles have a specific toxicity in tumor cells. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese scientists describe their design and synthesis of a special amorphous state of nanoparticulate iron, which can ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2016
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Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that some species of giant clams produce their white coloration much like the displays used in televisions and smartphones – by combining red, ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 20, 2016
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