The sinking of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012 – and the reported difficulties in evacuating over 4,000 people with the eventual loss of 32 lives –underlined the urgent need to accurately trace passengers ...
Engineering
Aug 28, 2014
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Wow! Rosetta is getting ever-closer to its target comet by the day. This navigation camera shot from Aug. 23 shows that the spacecraft is so close to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that it's difficult to fit the entire 2.5-mile ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2014
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When fishermen are at sea to catch monkfish, fluke or other commercial seafood, much larger fish can unintentionally wind up in their nets. Hauling in sand tiger sharks and Atlantic sturgeon can be particularly problematic—not ...
Ecology
Aug 28, 2014
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It's not the person posting 10,000 pictures a week of their cat who's the big-time Facebook user, even if you might think so.
Social Sciences
Aug 28, 2014
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There is much excitement about Rosetta at the moment. The European Space Agency's spacecraft has already made a successful rendezvous with a comet and the images that are being transmitted back are simply awe-inspiring. There ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2014
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INRA research scientists in Dijon have shown that the ability of soils to eliminate N2O can mainly be explained by the diversity and abundance of a new group of micro-organisms that are capable of transforming it into atmospheric ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2014
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NASA is reviewing data from a rocket launch that tested a new sub-payload deployment method for suborbital rockets.
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered they can control chemical reactions in a new way by creating different shapes of cerium oxide, a rare-earth-based catalyst. ...
Materials Science
Aug 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Working with Chinese researchers, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has conducted the first comprehensive study of cool roofs in China and concluded that they would ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 28, 2014
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Large molecular motors consisting of up to a dozen different proteins regulate access to the genome, which is essential for the transcription of genes and for the repair of DNA damage. Susan Gasser and her team now reveal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2014
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