Land cover 2010
This global land-cover map was created using data from the Envisat mission for the 2010 epoch (2008–12).
Environment
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Improvements to classical graph theory have potential to impact modern-day problem solving
In a reexamination of existing combinatorial optimization (graph) algorithms used to find the best solution with minimum enumeration, scientists from Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), University of Bergen (Norway), Purdue ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 3, 2014
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Soon to become a minority in the US, whites express declining support for diversity, psychology study finds
(Phys.org) —White Americans may view diversity and multiculturalism more negatively as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation, UCLA psychologists report.
Social Sciences
Oct 3, 2014
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Research shows the behaviour of business leaders could be directly linked to their experiences in childhood
What makes a great leader? Effectiveness? Experience? Volcanoes? It might seem unlikely, but new research from a team of academics, including Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge ...
Economics & Business
Oct 3, 2014
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Image: Athabasca oil sands from orbit
This Landsat-8 image covers a distance of over 350 km from top to bottom, all within Canada's Alberta province.
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2014
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Birds colour-match their interior designs
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have produced the first experimental evidence that birds actively select nest-building materials that camouflage their nests: published today in influential ornithological journal ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2014
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Crumpled graphene could provide an unconventional energy storage
When someone crumples a sheet of paper, that usually means it's about to be thrown away. But researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene "paper"—a material formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 3, 2014
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Alexander Gerst set for spacewalk
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has spent four months in the relative safety of the International Space Station but on Tuesday he will venture into open space with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on a seven-hour spacewalk.
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2014
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Underwater landslide doubled size of 2011 Japanese tsunami
(Phys.org) —An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, combined with the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2014
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New method efficiently estimates surface reflectivity from incoming sunlight bounced back by clouds
Capturing sunlight reflected off the Earth's surface and bounced off a cloud back to the Earth is an effective measure of surface reflectivity—or surface albedo, the measure of how mirror-like the Earth's surface is. Researchers ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2014
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