Despite the fact that 81% of Canadians accept that temperature on Earth is increasing, Université de Montréal researchers have revealed that Canadians are generally misinformed about the science of climate change and are ...
Environment
Nov 21, 2014
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Waste is reduced through the cheap and green development of a catalyst for the transformation of a commercially important functional group
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2014
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This image from Sentinel-1A's radar on 11 July shows Tokyo Bay in Japan.
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2014
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Studying the intricacies and mysteries of the sun is physicist Wendell Horton life's work. A widely known authority on plasma physics, his study of the high temperature gases on the sun, or plasma, consistently leads him ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 21, 2014
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A new way of switching the magnetic properties of a material using just a small applied voltage, developed by researchers at MIT and collaborators elsewhere, could signal the beginning of a new family of materials with a ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 21, 2014
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Researchers at MIT say they have carried out a theoretical analysis showing that a family of two-dimensional materials exhibits exotic quantum properties that may enable a new type of nanoscale electronics.
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2014
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An interdisciplinary team at Arizona State University has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program to conduct research on the future of the textbook.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2014
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A Purdue innovation that produces stronger, lighter metal parts that work for the automotive and aerospace industries through a new, 3-D printing technology is being commercialized through Frontier Additive Manufacturing ...
Engineering
Nov 21, 2014
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There are concerns that thousands of private webcams around the world could be streaming live images to anybody who wishes to view them – without their owner knowing – thanks to a Russian website providing a convenient ...
Security
Nov 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —UCLA researchers have developed a perovskite photodetector that could reduce manufacturing costs and improve the quality of medical and commercial light sensors.
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2014
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