Songbirds struggle against sounds of city
Humans can be a bit noisy. And while our racket has become second nature to us, songbirds are hoping we could keep it down a bit.
Ecology
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Taiwan's Gou turned loan into multi-billion dollar empire
Terry Gou, founder of the world's biggest electronics supplier, hasn't shied away from a gamble since turning a loan from his mother into a multi-billion dollar empire.
Business
Feb 25, 2016
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The dark side of world's lucrative mobile phone industry
As the world's largest mobile phone fair hosts the "creme de la creme" in Barcelona, activists slam the dark side of a sector accused of ignoring rights abuses in Chinese factories and Congolese mines.
Telecom
Feb 25, 2016
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Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide
As an MIT Sloan Fellow in 2011, Kin Lo MBA '12 felt disconnected from his daughter, who had just started preschool in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon, the 3-year-old would be learning a host of things there, such as numbers ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2016
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Canola beats soybean as protein source for dairy cattle
Agricultural Research Service dairy scientists in Wisconsin are helping dairy farmers weigh the merits of a relatively new option for feeding their cattle: Using canola meal as a protein supplement.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2016
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A swimming microrobot is driven by a light-induced peristaltic motion
Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are able to self-propel through water by the synchronized movement of ...
General Physics
Feb 25, 2016
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World's corals under threat
The current El Niño weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to explore how Europe's Sentinel-2 satellite might be able to quantify the damage on ...
Environment
Feb 25, 2016
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Image: Solar sails offer new orbital mechanics for satellites
Tomorrow's orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth's and the Sun's gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight to hover above the Arctic or Antarctic, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2016
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Newly discovered planet in the Hyades cluster could shed light on planetary evolution
University of Texas at Austin astronomer Andrew Mann and colleagues have discovered a planet in a nearby star cluster which could help astronomers better understand how planets form and evolve. The discovery of planet K2-25b ...
Astronomy
Feb 25, 2016
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Pulsar web could detect low-frequency gravitational waves
The recent detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) came from two black holes, each about 30 times the mass of our sun, merging into one. Gravitational waves span ...
Astronomy
Feb 25, 2016
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