Forest elephant populations in one of Central Africa's largest and most important preserves have declined between 78 percent and 81 percent because of poaching, a new Duke University-led study finds.
Ecology
Feb 20, 2017
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A new type of battery developed by scientists at Oregon State University shows promise for sustainable, high-power energy storage.
Materials Science
Feb 20, 2017
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New work from Carnegie's Stephen Elardo and Anat Shahar shows that interactions between iron and nickel under the extreme pressures and temperatures similar to a planetary interior can help scientists understand the period ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2017
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Rising temperatures could accelerate climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide stored in ponds and increasing the methane they release, new research shows.
Environment
Feb 20, 2017
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John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2017
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Pest ants like the red imported fire ant could be controlled more effectively with insecticide baits that can withstand moisture, say researchers with the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service ...
Ecology
Feb 20, 2017
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(Phys.org)—When three physicists first discovered through their calculations that a decaying atom moving through the vacuum experiences a friction-like force, they were highly suspicious. The results seemed to go against ...
Researchers have studied ultrafast non-equilibrium magnetization in correlated spin systems in recent years. At both fundamental and application levels, ultrafast laser pulse excitation and dynamics measurement provide an ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 20, 2017
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A new paper published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities reveals and quantifies dramatic differences in the speaking styles of candidates in the 2016 United States presidential election. Lexical analysis indicates that ...
Social Sciences
Feb 20, 2017
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Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that a decades-old paleontological mystery had been solved. The "Tully monster," an ancient animal that had long defied ...
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2017
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