(Phys.org) —Engineers have taken a crucial step in preparing to test parts of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send humans to new destinations in the solar system. They installed on Thursday an RS-25 engine ...
Space Exploration
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Climate models can recreate the slowdown in global warming since 1998, as long as they correctly factor in crucial variables such as the state of the El Niño system, new research has shown.
Environment
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Researchers at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world's most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens, which can be used to prevent and tackle disease ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Eric Taylor, a PhD student at Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, found that students who spent more of the school day in math class had higher math scores, but the gains did not last ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2014
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A team of scientists, including Museum fish researcher Dr Ralf Britz, have discovered that in one genus of fish the swimbladder, the organ used for buoyancy in water, is greatly enlarged in the males.
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Inspired by science fiction, three bowling ball-size free-flying Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) have been flying inside the International Space Station since ...
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2014
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China is now home to 632 million Internet users, a government agency said Monday, although use of social networks has dropped amid a crackdown.
Internet
Jul 21, 2014
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When a two-body relation becomes a three-body relation, the behaviour of the system changes and typically becomes more complex. While the basic physics of two interacting particles is well understood, the mathematical description ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Storing industrial waste has never been a pretty job, and it's getting harder. New techniques for refining such metals as aluminum and vanadium, for example, also yield new byproducts that have to be sealed ...
Materials Science
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations from around the globe. Atmospheric scientists ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2014
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