This week marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer or OSIRIS-REx ...
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2015
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Regulating comfort in small commercial buildings could become more efficient and less expensive thanks to an innovative low-cost wireless sensor technology being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 3, 2015
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International research involving the University of Adelaide has shed new light on the origins of some of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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For the first time, researchers have produced a 3-D image revealing part of the inner structure of an intact, infectious virus, using a unique X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...
General Physics
Mar 3, 2015
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Plants trade water for carbon – every litre of water that they extract from the soil allows them to take up a few more grams of carbon from the atmosphere to use in growth. A new global study, led by Australian researchers ...
Ecology
Mar 3, 2015
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Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) together with a colleague at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Strasbourg have found a new ...
General Physics
Mar 3, 2015
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When salmon, salamanders or other aquatic animals poop or shed skin cells, they leave behind traces of their DNA in the water, like clues left behind at a crime scene.
Ecology
Mar 3, 2015
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China's booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said on Tuesday.
Ecology
Mar 3, 2015
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Citing safety concerns, United Airlines on Monday became the second major U.S. airline to announce it will no longer accept bulk shipments of rechargeable batteries of the kind that power everything from smartphones to laptops ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 3, 2015
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Couldn't be in Barcelona this week?
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 3, 2015
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