It's not just the size of your horns, but having the experience to know how to use them. Scientists have studied the effects of trophy hunting on bighorn sheep with alarming results: human selection is leading to artificial ...
Ecology
Jan 22, 2016
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Chemical and Biomolecular Engineers from the Melbourne School of Engineering have discovered a new way to deliver carbon dioxide to microalgae, which in turn, can be harvested to make renewable fuels such as biodiesel.
Biotechnology
Jan 22, 2016
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A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid afternoon in late December.
Engineering
Jan 22, 2016
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The Victorian government's plan to introduce a (as yet unspecified) minimum ATAR for students looking to study a teaching course is not a silver bullet to improving teaching standards in schools.
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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An international team lead by Macquarie researchers has found that humpback whales are not only unfazed by complex alarm sounds designed to alert them to hazards like fishing gear, they have no response to these warning sounds ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2016
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"When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars."
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2016
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While some technologies were created to make spacecraft move billions of miles, the Disturbance Reduction System has the opposite goal: To keep a spacecraft as still as possible.
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2016
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NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking a large winter storm that is expected to bring heavy snowfall to the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region on Jan. 22 and 23.
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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7
At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2016
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Pancake-making robots. A mechanical horse. A life-sized mousetrap. No, these aren't highlights from the latest episode of "Shark Tank." They are real-life inventions of a burgeoning community of artists, do-it-yourselfers ...
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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