A very large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and Japan has measured the highest energy photon ever recorded. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes ...
Perched at almost 8,500 metres on Everest, we paced back-and-forth, attempting to stave off frostbite as temperatures hovered close to -30°C and our drill batteries became too cold to work. Our ambition to install the highest ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2019
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Crack open an iPhone and you'll begin to see why President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with China doesn't make sense.
Other
Jun 26, 2019
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Victorian education minister James Merlino's announcement mobile phones will be banned for all students at state primary and secondary schools is certainly a bold move.
Education
Jun 26, 2019
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Fireworks atop "A" Mountain on July 4 commemorate Independence Day, but also usually mark the start of monsoon thunderstorms, according to local wisdom.
Environment
Jun 26, 2019
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Romans are depicted as slashing and burning their way across countries in order to secure their empire. But a University of Michigan archeologist suggests that the Romans may have trapped more flies with honey.
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2019
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In 3-D printing, residual stress can build up in parts during the printing process due to the expansion of heated material and contraction of cold material, generating forces that can distort the part and cause cracks that ...
Materials Science
Jun 26, 2019
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When Amnon Amir, Jon Sanders, and their colleagues began using positive control samples of Vibrio fischeri in plate-based extractions as a way to validate results, they unexpectedly observed that many of the surrounding samples ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 26, 2019
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A new watermelon line, developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Clemson University scientists, gets to the root of the problem of a major disease and pest of watermelon crops in the southern United States.
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2019
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Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting ...
Machine learning & AI
Jun 26, 2019
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