In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2016
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Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a device for the rapid analysis of liquids on the content of hazardous substances such as heavy metals. Polytechnicers use a method based on polymer optodes—very ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 22, 2016
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Responses to illegal wildlife trade need to be more nuanced and not only focused on high-profile species if we are to truly tackle the problem, say researchers.
Ecology
Sep 22, 2016
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Experts from Cardiff University are developing a statistical tool that uses social media to make real-time predictions of where hate crimes may occur.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2016
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The universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to the most stringent test yet.
General Physics
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Researchers at Nanoscience Center of University of Jyväskylä in Finland have succeeded in producing short chains and rings of gold nanoparticles with unprecedented precision. They used a special kind of nanoparticles with ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 22, 2016
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Chinese demand for Australian land will continue to rise due to increasing contamination of soil and waterways in China, according to the fourth edition of the influential China Story Yearbook, produced by The Australian ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2016
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Julien Ascoet was already suspicious when he pulled the plain white envelope from his mailbox this past July.
Security
Sep 22, 2016
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The global target to prevent climate catastrophe, crafted at a landmark summit last year in Paris, will be very difficult if not impossible to hit, said some of the world's top scientists meeting this week in Oxford.
Environment
Sep 22, 2016
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300 million-year-old pre-mammalian reptiles knew that it was their beautiful smiles that made them sexy, so they evolved mouths full of teeth to attract mates.
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2016
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