Our excitement with and rapid uptake of technology – and the growing opportunities for artificial brain enhancement – are putting humans more firmly on the path to becoming cyborgs, according to evolution experts from ...
Computer Sciences
May 27, 2016
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At busy intersections, traffic signals generally favor the road with the greatest volume to keep traffic moving. In the same way, cell division in the human body is regulated by proteins that control how cells divide, move ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 27, 2016
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Dramatic images of out-of-control wildfires in western North American forests have appeared on our television and computer screens with increasing regularity in recent decades, while costs of fire suppression have soared. ...
Environment
May 27, 2016
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In his his Master's Thesis, Joonas Javanainen examined the level of preparedness the additional challenges of space impose on software design.
Space Exploration
May 27, 2016
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Renowned for their intelligence, obedience and loyalty, German shepherd dogs are often the preferred breed for police and military work, as well as popular service dogs and family pets. But as most handlers, breeders and ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2016
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In the early 1970s, in the basement of Clark Hall, the Cornell team of professors David Lee and Robert Richardson, along with then-graduate student Douglas Osheroff, first observed superfluid helium-3. For that breakthrough, ...
Superconductivity
May 27, 2016
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From fragrances and food flavourings to the building blocks of pharmaceutical drugs, fine chemicals – complex chemicals produced in small quantities to a high degree of purity – play a major role in our daily lives.
Materials Science
May 27, 2016
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For the first time a study led by researchers at Macquarie University has observed the presence of individual personality differences in Port Jackson sharks.
Ecology
May 27, 2016
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For archaeologists and historians interested in the ancient politics, religion and language of the Indian subcontinent, two UCLA professors and their student researchers have creatively pinpointed sites that are likely to ...
Archaeology
May 27, 2016
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Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for information on flooded areas to analyse the cyclone's aftermath and ...
Space Exploration
May 27, 2016
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