A Malaysian-Dutch team of biologists have catalogued all 31 species of the tiny, but oh so pretty snail genus Plectostoma from West-Malaysia, Sumatra, and Thailand. Ten species are new to science, but some of those are going ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2014
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Pesticides have a direct impact on the physiology and behaviour of earthworms, a Danish/French research team reports after having studied earthworms that were exposed to pesticides over generations.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Italy has built a model that they've used to predict the impact of global warming on the olive business in the Mediterranean Basin. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
For the millions of people forced to rely on a plastic tube to eliminate their urine, developing an infection is nearly a 100 percent guarantee after just four weeks. But with the help of a little bubble-blowing, biomedical ...
Materials Science
Mar 25, 2014
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US President Barack Obama is proposing to end the National Security Agency's controversial bulk telephone data collection, exposed by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Security
Mar 25, 2014
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A West Australian researcher has played a key role in creating a model that simulated a high-level ozone event at a Hong Kong mountain summit.
Environment
Mar 25, 2014
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The growing and justified concern about the current global warming process has kindled the interest of the scientific community in geological records as an archive of crucial information to understand the physical and ecological ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2014
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For astrophysicists neutron stars are extremely complex astronomical objects. Research conducted with the collaboration of SISSA and published in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates that in certain respects these ...
Astronomy
Mar 25, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a system that makes it possible to scan traffic on the Internet for illegal photographs. The system can, for example, help trace child pornography on the Internet without ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2014
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For the first time in Africa, an insurance policy that combines an Islamic-compliant financial instrument with innovative use of satellite imagery is compensating Muslim pastoralists for drought-induced losses suffered in ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2014
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