A group of leading British scientists including Nobel-winning geneticist Paul Nurse warned leaving the European Union could threaten research funding, in a letter published in The Times newspaper on Friday.
Other
May 22, 2015
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Three European teams – including the EU-funded WALK-MAN – will present their emergency-response robots to the world at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals from 5 to 6 June. They are among 25 teams showing how far ...
Robotics
May 22, 2015
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When we look up at the night sky, it's easy to feel as though the stars we see have always been, and always will be, there. But just like ourselves, stars are born and die.
Astronomy
May 22, 2015
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The widespread evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds is costing farmers, especially through decreases in productivity and profitability. Although researchers and industry personnel have made recommendations to slow this ...
Ecology
May 22, 2015
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The one defining ideal of journalism is the belief that journalists should "speak the truth" even when the truth may be contested, unpopular or damaging.
Internet
May 22, 2015
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It looks like a Slinky suspended in motion.
Optics & Photonics
May 22, 2015
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California is in the fourth year of an historic drought. It's now so bad that state water authorities canceled the last monthly measurement of the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. There wasn't enough snow to even bother trying.
Environment
May 22, 2015
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The opening months of this year saw the first rumblings of a seismic shift in the Australian television market, with the introduction of three video-on-demand (VoD) subscription services: Stan; Presto; and Netflix.
Telecom
May 22, 2015
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The risk of injury in professional sport has been a central feature in recent debates about how well protected our stars are. Only recently, Argentine football player Emanuel Ortega died of a fatal head injury after hitting ...
Materials Science
May 22, 2015
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A new approach of industrial fault detection based on Artificial Intelligence has been studied on the electro-magnetic suspension of floating Maglev trains and could be applied to other safety-critical control systems, scientists ...
Engineering
May 22, 2015
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