Scientists recently completed test flights with prototypes of potential satellite sensors—including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California—over the Western United States, probing basic science ...
Earth Sciences
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DNA, present in almost every cell, is increasingly being used as a building material to construct tiny, but sophisticated structures such as autonomous 'DNA walkers' that can move along a microparticle surface, fluorescent ...
Nanophysics
Dec 21, 2017
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Kelp forests grow along coastlines worldwide, largely hidden from view. Like rainforests, they're among the planet's most important ecosystems: beautiful but fragile habitats for a wide array of plant and animal species.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2017
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Samuel McDowell, the late herpetologist and professor at Rutgers-Newark, spent a good part of his life studying ground snakes in New Guinea. Forty years later, Sara Ruane – who joined the Department of Biological Sciences ...
Plants & Animals
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Despite widespread perceptions of rising political polarization in the United States, the American public is no more polarized than it was before the Reagan era, according to a Stanford scholar.
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2017
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By turning computer circuits into unsolvable puzzles, a University of Michigan team aims to create an unhackable computer with a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Security
Dec 21, 2017
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 2nd-generation of 10-nanometer class (1y-nm), 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 DRAM. For use in a wide range of next-generation computing systems, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 21, 2017
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Brandy is the UK's favourite Christmas spirit, according to research into our festive online searches from the University of Warwick.
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2017
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A new discovery by scientists could aid efforts to clean up radioactive waste sites, and could also help protect military personnel, cancer patients, and astronauts.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 21, 2017
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Human biomass utilization reduces global carbon stocks in vegetation by 50%, implying that massive emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere have occurred over the past centuries and millennia. The contribution of forest management ...
Environment
Dec 21, 2017
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