Today more than 120 world leaders are gathered in New York for the Climate Leaders' Summit. With global emissions continuing to rise, it is easy to be pessimistic.
Environment
Sep 26, 2014
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A NIST team is at work on what promises to be one of the world's most accurate methods for generating a specified number of photons, and has devised a method to precisely estimate the uncertainty when counting such numbers.
Quantum Physics
Sep 26, 2014
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The partners in the FI-PPP FINESCE project are developing solutions to optimize the interoperability of the grid and manage variations of wind and solar power. The shift towards renewable energy imposes challenges on the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 26, 2014
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ACDC's partner, XLAB, has released the Device Monitor application to provide more mobile network security by monitoring and reporting malicious events on Android devices
Software
Sep 26, 2014
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Yoshihiro Iwasa and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have discovered that ultrathin films of a semiconducting material have properties that form ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 26, 2014
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Prejudices about ethnicity and culture influence how and why financial markets respond to the initial public offering for companies and the valuation of the shares. In her thesis, Ivana Naumovska from the Erasmus Research ...
Business
Sep 26, 2014
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Traditional educational tools present information to students in a conventional way: what they present is true and students are expected to learn what is presented. In a PhD study completed recently at the University of Eastern ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2014
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For decades, ecologists have studied soils to understand why some patches of vegetation contain more plant species than others. Â Researchers at The University of Western Australia's School of Plant Biology and the Smithsonian ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2014
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Eucalyptus oil is an Australian household staple – chances are you have some in the cupboard at home. It was the first indigenous product to be exported overseas in the early years of European settlement, and has since ...
Biotechnology
Sep 26, 2014
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Assembled or taken apart, SPIDER exhibits such size and complexity that it's hard to believe how William Jones, a Princeton University assistant professor of physics, so easily accepts that the instrument will likely never ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2014
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