The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is widely reported to be the single largest consumer of petroleum in the world, spending billions of dollars on fuel every year. While the DOD provides Congress with yearly budget ...
Economics & Business
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When grain and other commodity prices experienced explosive episodes between 2004 and 2013, the finger pointed toward index traders as the cause. University of Illinois researchers identified and date-stamped both upward ...
Economics & Business
Jun 23, 2015
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The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not.
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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Everyone in China knows global automobile brands such as Ford and Chevrolet. But do those brands really sell better than local ones such as Senova or Eado? The answer is yes, and the reason lies in a complicated mix of brand ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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Facebook announced Tuesday it has been using a new security tool to help detect and remove malicious software for users of the world's biggest social network.
Internet
Jun 23, 2015
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The early diagnosis of certain types of cancer, as well as nervous system diseases such as multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica, may soon be facilitated by the use of a nanometric sensor capable of identifying biomarkers ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 23, 2015
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U.S. consumers are often urged to "buy American," and some special interest groups even claim that buying foreign products is inappropriate, or even immoral. But when it comes to buying domestic products, positive feelings ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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A growing interest in thermoelectric materials—which convert waste heat to electricity—and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental ...
Nanophysics
Jun 23, 2015
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Every time you've seen a plane take off or land at a hub airport, you've seen the world growing more connected, according to a new model developed by researchers at MIT.
Economics & Business
Jun 23, 2015
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Just because more men pursue careers in science and engineering does not mean they are actually better at math than women are. The difference is that men think they are much better at math than they really are. Women, on ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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