Black rat numbers on Penguin Island have declined significantly while penguins and other native animals are flourishing, thanks to a baiting system that was introduced on the island one year ago.
Plants & Animals
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Phase transitions between different states of matter are normally driven by random thermal motions of atoms. However, when phase transitions occur at temperatures approaching absolute zero, quantum mechanical fluctuations ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 20, 2014
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Immediately after the biggest extinction event of all time there were once again functioning and complete food webs in the oceans of the Early Triassic. Contrary to previous assumptions there were large predators, too. Large ...
Archaeology
Mar 20, 2014
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US businesses in China are increasingly concerned about Internet censorship, data security and air pollution in the world's second-largest economy, according to a survey.
Security
Mar 20, 2014
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As spring finally emerges after a ferocious winter,, our battered roads will soon be re-exposed. While potholes and cracks might make news, a bigger concern should be the deterioration to pavement markings, from yellow to ...
Engineering
Mar 20, 2014
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Jack Gallagher grew up on a farm, but he never cared much for the squawking chickens pecking around. The Pennsylvania farm boy gravitated toward the coastline, where he built a career studying salt marsh vegetation as a marine ...
Ecology
Mar 20, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from France, the U.S. and the U.K. has presented its findings in measuring the movement of carbon and carbon dioxide in and out of a portion of the ocean known as the "twilight ...
John Ginger, a recent Engineering graduate, is one half of a team developing a small robot to help children learn programming and robotics while they play.
Robotics
Mar 20, 2014
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This spring may be more like a lion than a lamb.
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Italy has developed the first fully photonics-based coherent radar system. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they built their new radar system and ...
