Fracture and breakage of single crystals, particularly of silicon wafers, are multi-scale problems: the crack tip starts propagating on an atomic scale with the breaking of chemical bonds, forms crack fronts through the crystal ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 3, 2016
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US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has said he opposes high-tech "back doors" that would allow the government access to encrypted data on people's phones and other devices.
Security
Mar 3, 2016
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For the first time, researchers have determined a signature of changes that occur to human remains, specifically bones, left outside in the New England environment.This signature or "patterning" can be used by law enforcement ...
Archaeology
Mar 3, 2016
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How enzymes - the biological proteins that act as catalysts and help complex reactions occur - are 'tuned' to work at a particular temperature is described in new research from groups in New Zealand and the UK, including ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2016
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The Supreme Court has left intact a federal rule that targets mercury pollution—giving the Environmental Protection Agency time to fix legal problems and come out with a revision by April.
Environment
Mar 3, 2016
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It's a chilling moment when a small business owner discovers hackers have stolen thousands of dollars from the company checking account.
Security
Mar 3, 2016
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Every cook knows that dissolving powder into a liquid, such as semolina in milk or polenta in water, often creates lumps. What they most likely don't know is that physicists spend a lot of time attempting to understand what ...
General Physics
Mar 3, 2016
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A project at The University of Manchester to analyse 15,000 mouse studies - the largest of its kind ever undertaken - has revealed that about half of these studies failed to report the sex and age of the mice involved, despite ...
Other
Mar 3, 2016
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10
Global climate change may actually be setting the stage for greater species diversity in the Pacific Northwest.
Environment
Mar 3, 2016
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Plymouth University academics have published a paper detailing the historical importance of the city's waters and their continuing impact on science, travel and ecology.
Environment
Mar 3, 2016
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