Ninth graders across the country can recite the basic stages of the cell cycle—growth, DNA replication, division—but the world's best researchers are still trying to figure out how the thing actually works.
Cell & Microbiology
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The United Nations has declared 2015 the hottest year since record keeping began. It was also a year marked by the occurrence of a "super" El Niño. El Niño is a phenomenon that disrupts normal weather patterns, bringing ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2016
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Two-factor authentication is a computer security measure used by major online service providers to protect the identify of users in the event of a password loss. The process is familiar: When a password is forgotten, the ...
Security
Feb 3, 2016
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Heavy vehicle drivers with an empty load are two-and-a-half times more likely to crash than those carrying freight.
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2016
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Scientists working in Scotland and China have uncovered a potential Achilles' heel in the organism which causes potato blight, a global problem with associated costs estimated at $6billion around the world every year.
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2016
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Thanks to a small screen on their skis, backcountry skiers can see various data recorded by sensors as they ski. The length and number of turns going up, their cadence and even the symmetry of their steps appear on the device. ...
Engineering
Feb 3, 2016
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Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing global public health, threatening our ability to treat common infections. Cutting-edge research in Oxford University's Department of Chemistry is exploring new ...
Biochemistry
Feb 3, 2016
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Tübingen University's Cognitive Modeling group, led by Professor Martin Butz, has developed software to give social skills – based on human thinking and behavior – to favorite video game figures Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and ...
Software
Feb 3, 2016
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Because Volkswagen has committed large-scale fraud with the software in diesel engines, nine million fraudulent cars, sold in Europe and the US from 2009 to 2015, have emitted a cumulative amount of 526 kilo tonnes of nitrogen ...
Environment
Feb 3, 2016
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(Phys.org)—In 2011, the research group of Roland Wiesendanger, Physics Professor at the University of Hamburg in Germany, fabricated a spin-based logic device using the spins of single atoms, a feat that represents the ...
