These are dangerous times. The Doomsday Clock sits at just two and a half minutes before midnight, which represents global catastrophe.
Other
Mar 28, 2017
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William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT the smallest of all photosynthetic bacteria holds clues to the evolution of entire ecosystems, and perhaps even the whole biosphere.
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2017
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Climate change may force one of New England's invasive plant species to retreat north, while another will likely stay put and take over an even greater area, according to a new study by UConn faculty and former doctoral candidates.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2017
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Robots and computers are replacing people everywhere; doctors, pilots, even journalists. Is this leading to a dystopian society, or could it be something positive?
Software
Mar 28, 2017
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A new doctoral dissertation by Parvin Gheitasi at Umeå University explores the different functions of prefabricated phrases in young learners' oral language production. These phrases provided learners with an instrument ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2017
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Cooling materials super-quickly, called rapid solidification, prevents the normal crystalline structures of materials from forming, often creating unique properties in the process. If single crystal growth techniques sit ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 28, 2017
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When it comes to creating new materials, single crystals play an important role in presenting a clearer picture of a material's intrinsic properties. A typical material will be comprised of lots of smaller crystals and the ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 28, 2017
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A supermassive black hole inside a tiny galaxy is challenging scientists' ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one.
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2017
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The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has released a new catalog of over 107 million stars, the 5th USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC5). This catalog of about 5.5 gigabytes of binary data is currently available from ...
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2017
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Humanity is in the early stages of the most significant evolution in its history: learning to think as a species.
Environment
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