Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of total radioactivity maps is essential for thorough cleanup, but the most common methods, according ...
General Physics
Mar 22, 2017
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New research has identified a 'mean blind spot', which leaves organisations vulnerable to cyber attack – particularly in the months of April and October.
Security
Mar 22, 2017
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Ask any young science faculty member what keeps them up at night, and you're likely to get the same response every time: funding research. It is no secret that modern scientific research depends on receiving sufficient funding. ...
Other
Mar 22, 2017
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A plummeting birthrate and scarcity of resources have left Cuba facing a demographic dilemma.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2017
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Thirty-nine percent of adults worldwide are overweight, 13 percent even obese – with the trend increasing, says the World Health Organization (WHO). At the same time, 795 million people are starving. Still, 1.3 billion ...
Environment
Mar 22, 2017
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Video games are robust forms of creative expression merging design, code, art and sound. Unfortunately, many games misrepresent or appropriate from Indigenous communities by falling back on stereotypes or including cultural ...
Software
Mar 22, 2017
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"Technophobes"—people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don't understand—are much more likely to be afraid of losing their jobs to technology and to suffer anxiety-related mental health ...
Robotics
Mar 22, 2017
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Developing countries struggling to cope with huge volumes of human waste may finally get some relief – and a new business opportunity.
Environment
Mar 22, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from France and the Slovak Republic has proposed a theory to explain the water-like streaks that appear seasonally on the surface of Mars, which do not involve water. In their paper published ...
Magnetic materials are a vital ingredient in the components that store information in computers and mobile phones. Now, A*STAR researchers have developed a material that could help these magnetic-based memory devices to store ...
General Physics
Mar 22, 2017
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