Research teams in Europe and the USA – including a cosmologist from the University of Portsmouth – have begun modelling the universe for the first time using Einstein's full general theory of relativity.
General Physics
Jun 24, 2016
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As more coal-fired power plants are retired, industry workers are left without many options. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, though.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 24, 2016
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New Research on the California spotted owl has found that severely burned forests that have not been post-fire salvage logged are used by the threatened raptor when foraging for their small mammal prey. Stand-replacing ...
Environment
Jun 24, 2016
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Care work in German families is increasingly being taken over by female migrant workers. Their precarious situation is now analysed in an industrial and organisational sociology study from TU Darmstadt.
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2016
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Researchers of the Nanomagnetism Group and Electron Microscopy Group at CIC nanoGUNE devised and demonstrated a novel approach to nanoactuation that relies on magnetomechanics instead of the conventional electromechanics ...
Nanophysics
Jun 24, 2016
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light, rather than the multiple samples required by ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 24, 2016
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Scientists at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) detected an important mechanism in the evolution of plant genomes: Using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism, they studied the formation of tandem repeat DNA sequences ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 24, 2016
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The "just in time" principle applied to temperature control promises gains in energy efficiency and product quality.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 24, 2016
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The St. Lawrence Seaway extends more than 2,300 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the top of the Great Lakes, connecting Canada and the United States.
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2016
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EPFL researchers have come up with a way to optimize information transfer, solving a problem that has confounded researchers for 60 years. Their breakthrough could enhance the quality of our communications, from smartphones ...
Telecom
Jun 24, 2016
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