Fluids such as water are Newtonian, and their viscous behavior is well understood. However, many common fluids are "viscoelastic." These fluids, such as those commonly found in cosmetics, soaps and paints, possess a combination ...
Soft Matter
Nov 22, 2016
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Bird nests are home not only to the bird parents and their offspring but also to other inhabitants, such as insect larvae, which take advantage of the favourable climatic conditions and abundant supply of food in the nests. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2016
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Over 8,000 people were arrested in England and Wales for driving under the influence of drugs in the year to April 2016. In fact, 60% of all those stopped by police under suspicion of drug-driving test positive for illegal ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 22, 2016
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Harvard Medical School researchers have improved the design of tiny nanodiscs—synthetic models of cell membranes used to study proteins that control what enters and leaves a cell. The enhancements provide an unprecedented ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 22, 2016
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NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the fires that continue to blaze in the southeastern United States with no end in sight. There are several fires visible. Two are fires that are listed on the Inciweb ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2016
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EPFL is launching openfood.ch, a website that provides the public with data on more than 14,000 food products sold in Switzerland. The website's data set will be a real gold mine when it comes to developing applications and ...
Other
Nov 22, 2016
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Shocking allegations of bullying, harassment and sexual assault at CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences (CASS) division were revealed on Sunday by the ABC's Background Briefing program.
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2016
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Researchers are developing large structures inspired by 'cloaking' materials for sound and light, which can offer protection against seismic waves.
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2016
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Cancerous tumours are known to release cells into the bloodstream, and it is these circulating tumour cells or CTCs that are the sources of metastatic tumours – tumours that spread and form in distant locations in the body. ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 22, 2016
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A team of researchers, including two from the University of California, Riverside, have made a key discovery that could potentially help eliminate disease-spreading mosquitoes on a continent-wide scale.
Biotechnology
Nov 22, 2016
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