Many smartphone users know that free apps sometimes share private information with third parties, but few, if any, are aware of how frequently this occurs. An experiment at Carnegie Mellon University shows that when people ...
Security
Mar 23, 2015
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A team of scientists including Virginia Tech researchers is one step closer to understanding how bacteria on a frog's skin affects its likelihood of contracting disease.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2015
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Kansas farmers are paying for genetic research to figure out exactly why some people struggle to digest wheat.
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University has taken yet another step towards bringing to life a reasonable facsimile of a woolly mammoth—a large, hairy elephant-like beast that went extinct approximately ...
Researchers from the Malaspina Expedition have made strides in the understanding of the mechanisms governing the persistence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) for hundreds or thousands of years in the deep ocean. Most of ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2015
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French authorities announced Monday that emergency traffic-limitation measures to combat high pollution levels in Paris would not be extended as forecasts showed the air was clearing.
Environment
Mar 23, 2015
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Kansas and U.S. dairy producers may avoid some of the billions of dollars lost to mastitis thanks to a Kansas State University technology that is detecting the early stages of the disease in dairy cows.
Other
Mar 23, 2015
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A group of 18 scientists and ethicists today warned that a revolutionary new tool to cut and splice DNA should be used cautiously when attempting to fix human genetic disease, and strongly discouraged any attempts at making ...
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2015
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One of humanity's oldest technologies, the humble fishing net, may yet find a new role in space: bringing down dead satellites.
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2015
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GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth – to name just a few of the wireless standards that have become a natural part of mobile communication today. For all these wireless standards, signal processing could not be done without ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 23, 2015
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