Through a curriculum appropriately titled, "Bed Bugs and Book Bags," students worldwide are learning how to identify bed bugs, where they hide out and much more. The program teaches how to prevent the insects, and a new University ...
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Plants will play a critical role in the survival of human beings on long-duration space missions, such as a mission to Mars. However, as a paper published in Botany Letters shows, many challenges need to be addressed if ...
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Sep 21, 2016
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Statisticians are developing new ways to interpret the unprecedented amounts of data being generated continuously all around us.
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Sep 21, 2016
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When there are no data due to a lack of hydrometric station, interviews to neighbours and air photographs of water environment are the effective methods to collect information on the water regime of temporary rivers.
Environment
Sep 21, 2016
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A new scientific report has confirmed that the snow leopard is running out of room to survive, with nearly 40% of all protected areas across the species' range too small to support even a pair of breeding snow leopards.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2016
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An international team of researchers has invented a method to control the formation of defects called "shear bands" in metals manufacturing processes and discovered microscopic details of how the defects are created.
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Sep 21, 2016
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The landmark Paris agreement on climate change moved closer to reality Wednesday after 31 countries joined during the United Nations General Assembly.
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Sep 21, 2016
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Here is a timeline of the emissions scandal that has dogged automaker Volkswagen for the past year.
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Sep 21, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Quantum measurements are often inherently unpredictable, yet the usual way in which quantum theory accounts for unpredictability has long been viewed as somewhat unsatisfactory. In a new study, University of ...
Chemistry typically involves precise measurements and careful testing in order to get significant results. Yet several notable discoveries happened simply by accident—ultimately altering how society views science.
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