Ultrasonic hammer sets off tiny explosions
Giving new meaning to the term "sonic boom," University of Illinois chemists have used sound to trigger microscopic explosions.
General Physics
Apr 3, 2015
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Exploring the human side of climate change adaptation
In public policy, communities often measure their ability to respond to the effects of climate change and natural disasters in terms of traditional emergency resources—the number of sandbags available, or access to ambulances ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2015
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Spring signals return of dangerous pet parasites
Warm weather and longer days mean many pets and their owners will be spending more time outside. Spring also brings the return of fleas that can pose as dangerous parasites to pets.
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2015
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Agronomist weighs environmental impacts of corn residue removal
Farmers who are considering selling corn residue from their fields to produce cellulosic ethanol first should weigh a range of site-specific factors to their operations, according to new research from an Iowa State University ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2015
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Study may help to predict forest fires' sudden, sometimes deadly switch from slow to fast moving
Fighting forest fires is rife with danger, and perhaps most frightening is the fact that slow-moving fires can suddenly erupt into fast-moving, deadly blazes. It's a moment that firefighters dread, and that seems almost impossible ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2015
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Future antibiotic-making kits for amateurs?
Researchers in Switzerland and Japan have developed a rapid, simple and safe method for generating large libraries of novel organic molecules in a fraction of the time required for traditional organic synthesis.
Materials Science
Apr 3, 2015
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Octopus-inspired robot—the fastest underwater robot based on the given power
Scientists in Singapore have developed a new octopus-inspired robot which can zip through water 10 times its body length within one second, in an ultra-efficient manner. This first-ever ultra-fast propulsion and super-manoeuvrability ...
Robotics
Apr 3, 2015
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Comparatively conceiving, observing and visualising diversification in public urban spaces
How can people live together, with ever more diverse characteristics, in the world's rapidly expanding cities? What are the similarities and differences in social and spatial patterns that arise when new diversity meets old ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2015
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Tarantula coordination disintegrates in heat
Scuttling across the floor, a spider's movements have more in common with robots than you may at first realise. Instead of contracting muscles to extend a limb, spiders inflate their joints with haemolymph to straighten them ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2015
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New robotic vehicle provides a never-before-seen look under Antarctica (w/ Video)
A first-of-its-kind robotic vehicle recently dove to depths never before visited under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and brought back video of life on the seafloor.
Earth Sciences
Apr 3, 2015
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