Growers, researchers, policymakers and others can now pinpoint California's most promising parcels of farmland to help replenish the state's dwindling groundwater supplies, thanks to a new interactive map developed by the ...
Environment
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Climate negotiators divided on how to tackle global warming—and who should foot the bill—grappled Friday on the final day of crunch talks to finalise a draft agreement ahead of a crucial UN summit.
Environment
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Models to help understand land use range from highly detailed local scenarios to massive, integrated systems that link energy, agriculture, and the economy over areas as large as the continent of Africa. But more sophisticated ...
Environment
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For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency's Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges ...
Space Exploration
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Textbooks on methane-metabolising organisms might have to be rewritten after researchers in a University of Queensland-led international project today (23 October) announced the discovery of two new organisms.
Earth Sciences
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Naturalization acts as a catalyst that builds greater social and political integration for immigrants and their new countries, according to Stanford research.
Social Sciences
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NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has issued a call to American industry for innovative ideas on how the agency could obtain a core advanced solar electric propulsion-based spacecraft to ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich and at the MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden have now drawn a detailed map of human protein interactions. Using a novel ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2015
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This natural-colour Sentinel-2A image features Mexico City and surroundings.
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2015
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An autonomous car developed at Freie Universität Berlin has traveled through Mexico without any human intervention. Named AutoNOMOS, the car traveled 2400 kilometers and reached Mexico City on Tuesday. According to the researchers' ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
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