How can gender perspectives be coaxed into a world of male researchers? The gender group at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) did it by knocking on doors and demanding new ways of thinking.
Social Sciences
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Floating wind turbines for offshore use are seen by many as embodying the future of the sector: they circumvent the problem of unsuitable seabeds and may even cost less than grounded alternatives. A consortium working under ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 28, 2016
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This labyrinth-like system of troughs and plateaus was imaged by ESA's Mars Express on 21 June 2016.
Space Exploration
Nov 28, 2016
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A team led by researchers at the RIKEN Biofunctional Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory in Japan has developed a way to engineer glycan complexes—clusters of sugar chains attached to proteins or lipids—in a way that allows ...
Biochemistry
Nov 28, 2016
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A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Jena and DESY has paved the way for using conventional lasers to observe chemical bonds being broken apart. For their experiments, the scientists combined high-performance ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 28, 2016
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The only way for northern countries to halt deforestation in the South is to make sure land owners are paid more than it costs them to conserve the forest. However, there is a fundamental contradiction in this policy, according ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2016
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A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass always yields to its solid proclivity by settling into the ordered patterns of a crystal. Or so it was thought.
Condensed Matter
Nov 28, 2016
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Before trees lose their leaves in the winter, they offer us a bright autumnal display of reds, oranges, and yellows. This results from the decomposition of the compound that makes leaves green: chlorophyll. Among the decomposition ...
Materials Science
Nov 28, 2016
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Measures should be taken by employers to ensure older workers don't become demotivated and head into early retirement, according to a new report.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2016
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Oklahoma's Beaver River is an incredibly historic place. Anthropologists estimate that as early as 10,500 years ago, human beings hunted bison in the region. Being without horses, the hunter-gatherers would funnel herds into ...
Space Exploration
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