As another successful Open Access Week passes, analysis released today reveals younger researchers are embracing change in scholarly communication. Just under 8,000 researchers from around the world responded to the 2014 ...
Other
Oct 28, 2014
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The return of the SpaceX Dragon brings with it plant samples, data that may impact your facial cream composition and validation of a new way of creating on Earth crystals that are used in our daily electronic devices. This ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2014
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A Norwegian invention is reducing by a third the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades.
Engineering
Oct 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Schrödinger's famous thought experiment in which a cat hidden in a box can be both dead and alive at the same time demonstrates the concept of superposition on the macroscopic scale. However, the existence ...
The first flight and drop tests for the latest variant of the W88 nuclear warhead are providing data for Sandia National Laboratories to validate designs, improve computer modeling and update component specifications.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2014
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Individual differences in moving activity in a novel environment are linked to individual differences in vulnerability to angling, according to an experimental study completed at the University of Eastern Finland and the ...
Ecology
Oct 28, 2014
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If one would rewind the tape of life, would evolution result in the same outcome? The Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with this famous thought experiment. He suggested that evolution would not repeat ...
Evolution
Oct 28, 2014
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The European Union's environment agency says the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions dropped by nearly 2 percent last year, putting the EU very close to reaching its emissions target for 2020.
Environment
Oct 28, 2014
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A new study reveals the urgent need to address instabilities in the supply of electrical power to counteract an increase in the frequency and severity of urban blackouts.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 28, 2014
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A solution to one of the key challenges in the development of quantum technologies has been proposed by University of Sussex physicists.
Quantum Physics
Oct 28, 2014
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