The CIA along with NASA and NOAA is reportedly funding a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) project whose goal is to study several geoengineering options aimed at reversing global warming. Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney ...
In the pile of issues that politicians think will give them traction in the forthcoming election, Australia's ageing population it seems won't be one of them. Maybe it doesn't come up in the focus group research, or is not ...
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An alternative and novel concept in electronics is to utilize the wave quantum number of the electron in a crystalline material to encode information. In a new article in Nature Materials, Isberg et.al. propose ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 22, 2013
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Devastating wildfires the likes of which razed Slave Lake in 2011 will become more common and tougher to control, according to new research from the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences.
Environment
Jul 22, 2013
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The Pitch Drop experiment set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics is one of the world's oldest continuously running experiments.
General Physics
Jul 22, 2013
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Want to combat congestion? Then eco-race your way to the Cube.
Engineering
Jul 22, 2013
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Wandering through his university's library in São Paulo one day in 2002, Rafael Nonato noticed a book titled "Language." Curious, he pulled it off the shelf.
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2013
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Melbourne researchers have invented and patented a way of detecting and locating potential electrical faults along large stretches of power line before they occur.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 22, 2013
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Using a spin-polarized metastable helium beam, a group headed by Dr. Shiro Entani, who is a limited-term researcher at the Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (President: Shojiro Matsuura) and Dr. ...
General Physics
Jul 22, 2013
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UNIST researchers report considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices. Published in Nature Photonics today, the new plasmonic material, can be applied to both polymer light-emitting ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 22, 2013
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