Scientists from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a phenomenon that helps them to improve fusion plasmas, a finding that may quicken the development ...
Plasma Physics
May 20, 2015
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What do Einstein, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Newton, Jesus, Mandela, Edison, Lincoln and the Buddha all have in common? They all make up the top 10 heroes in world history. As regards the villains, the ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2015
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Reports that a cybersecurity expert successfully hacked into an aeroplane's control system from a passenger seat raises many worrying questions for the airline industry.
Security
May 20, 2015
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What do you know? There is now a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess—or, to get philosophical about it, an ontology for automatons.
Robotics
May 20, 2015
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The water crisis in the western United States – most notably in California and Washington – may be the most severe and most publicized, but other threats to the nation's water supply loom, says Dr. Joel Burken, professor ...
Environment
May 20, 2015
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Whole Foods Market encourages its employees to connect with the supermarket's "core values" on a personal level and make them "come to life" every day in their work.
Economics & Business
May 20, 2015
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Oral care products containing a natural chemical that stops bacteria harming teeth could help prevent decay, a study suggests.
Biochemistry
May 20, 2015
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A new SISSA study has achieved two important results with a single effort: to devise an innovative method to analyse the structure of biological proteins immersed in their physiological context, and to closely observe a major ...
Biochemistry
May 20, 2015
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Tumors come in all shapes, sizes ... and squishiness. And it turns out that matters, if you want to know how to treat them.
General Physics
May 20, 2015
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The newest video in the "Behind the Webb" series, called "Strutting its Stuff," provides a look at three "struts" or poles that fold and unfold the secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope. The video series takes ...
Space Exploration
May 20, 2015
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