The days of wearing bifocals or constantly swapping out reading glasses might soon come to an end.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 25, 2017
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Researchers from King's working with the European Forensic Genetics Network of Excellence (EUROFORGEN) are launching a guide in partnership with the charity Sense about Science, to address misconceptions about DNA analysis ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 25, 2017
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A mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid moon to alter its trajectory, a possible dry-run for an exercise in saving the Earth from Armageddon, has run into a cash crunch.
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2017
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Coping with climate change will already be difficult enough without worrying about Dansgaard-Oescheger (DO) events that could come on top of it. However, their possible occurrence cannot be dismissed: We need to know more ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Astronomers have spotted a mysterious faint object in the vicinity of a quadruply lensed quasar designated MG 0414+0534. The object, which was discovered using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
You may well have found this article through Facebook. An algorithm programmed by one of the world's biggest companies now partially controls what news reaches 1.8 billion people. And this algorithm has come under attack ...
Internet
Jan 25, 2017
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New research led by the University of Leicester has made a novel breakthrough in understanding how solidification cracking occurs during the welding of steel, an important engineering alloy.
Engineering
Jan 25, 2017
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A new study published in Scientific Reports shows how barnacles borrow design cues from insect silks to produce an adhesive that permanently bonds with surfaces underwater, allowing them to survive pounding waves at the rocky ...
Materials Science
Jan 25, 2017
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The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is a partnership between Wits, the University of Johannesburg and the Gauteng provincial and local government.
Environment
Jan 25, 2017
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Crabs that invade smaller crab species' habitat overpower and evict incumbents from their burrows, but the two species ultimately co-exist and join forces against other invading crabs in a game of thrones once they establish ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2017
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