Student rescues abandoned baby gibbon
Naven Hon, an ecology and biodiversity Master's student, came across the infant gibbon last week at the Veun Sai-Siem Pang Conservation Area.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2015
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Designing self-healing concrete with shape memory
Roads that self-repair, bridges filled with first-aid bubbles, buildings with arteries… not some futuristic fantasy but a very real possibility with 'smart' concrete.
Engineering
Mar 24, 2015
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Archivists unearth rare first edition of 'The Map that Changed the World'
A rare early copy of William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, previously thought lost, has been uncovered by Geological Society archivists. The new map has been digitised and made available online in time ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2015
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Access to clean water a question of lifestyle and fairness
eThekwini is a municipality in South Africa, where the town of Durban is located. eThekwini is pointed out as being a good example with regard to the distribution of water to all inhabitants and in 2014, eThekwini was given ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2015
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Ice age people hunted horse and camel 13,300 years ago
New research shows that prehistoric Ice-Age people hunted horse and camel 13,300 years ago in North America, much earlier than previously believed, according to a team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist.
Archaeology
Mar 24, 2015
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NASA satellites catch 'growth spurt' from newborn protostar
Using data from orbiting observatories, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities, an international team of astronomers has discovered an outburst from a star thought to be in the earliest phase ...
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2015
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Video: Improved radar systems could save lives and money when severe weather strikes
A new generation of smaller, highly capable radar systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is able to track with more accuracy the location of tornadoes and other severe weather conditions, such as heavy rain and ice storms, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2015
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Engineers develop new yeast strain to enhance biofuel and biochemical production
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new, mutant yeast strain that could lead to a more ...
Biotechnology
Mar 24, 2015
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Schwarzenegger pushes Congress to save after-school funding
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling on Congress to preserve federal funding for after-school programs in a proposed reauthorization of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.
Other
Mar 24, 2015
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Russia to resume space tourism in 2018
Russia officials say they will resume space tourism in 2018 after years of sending into space only professional cosmonauts and astronauts.
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2015
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