In 2010, 28 regions in China suffered a five-month-long flood. This disaster resulted in over 4000 people dead or missing, and over U.S. $50 billion in property loss. In 1987, India experienced one of the worst droughts in ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2016
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Today, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials and usually dangerous, unstable reagents such as diazomethane or iodomethylzinc iodide.
Materials Science
Dec 20, 2016
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The European Union charged Facebook on Tuesday with providing "misleading" information when it sought approval for its blockbuster $22-billon buyout of the WhatsApp mobile messaging service.
Business
Dec 20, 2016
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A wild boar led Hong Kong police on a merry chase after it wandered onto the apron of Hong Kong's international airport on Tuesday.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2016
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Chinese authorities are clamping down on streaming video over social media amid a proliferation of online-only television content and live-streaming.
Internet
Dec 20, 2016
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An encrypted messaging app often used by journalists and activists in Egypt has been blocked by authorities, its maker said late Monday.
Internet
Dec 20, 2016
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Researchers model how 'publication bias' does—and doesn't—affect the 'canonization' of facts in science
Other
Dec 20, 2016
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The first mapping of carbon recovery in Amazonian forests following emissions released by commercial logging activities has been published in the journal eLife.
Environment
Dec 20, 2016
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Scientists studying high temperature superconductors-materials that carry electric current with no energy loss when cooled below a certain temperature-have been searching for ways to study in detail the electron interactions ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2016
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Deep from within the Indonesian jungle a solitary, seldom seen forest giant emerges from the undergrowth.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2016
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