A dictator's death rarely leads to regime change, according to a new study that comes as a fifth of the world's authoritarian rulers are at least 70 years old and in various stages of declining health.
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and Seoul National University, South Korea, were able to show for the first time that roots react directly to light which is transmitted from ...
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Tropical Storm Meari began as a tropical depression numbered 26W north-northwest of Yap in the early morning hours of November 3, 2016. Later that day it intensified into Tropical Storm Meari.
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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An entire class of proteins called transcription factors, which regulate the activity of certain genes by interacting with specific sequences of DNA, has largely been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry because it's difficult ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 3, 2016
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new cell culture method, which may very well enable to forgo certain tests on animals in the future. The scientists were awarded an international prize for more humane treatment ...
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Getting urban planning right is no mean feat. It requires understanding how and when people travel between different places. This knowledge, in turn, helps in dimensioning roads and motorways and in scaling the capacity of ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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Diplomats from 196 nations gather from Monday for 12-day UN climate talks tasked with charting a path for capping global warming at "well below" two degree Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial era levels.
Environment
Nov 3, 2016
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China launched its most powerful rocket ever on Thursday, state media said, as the country presses on with a program which has seen it become a major space power.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2016
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Only days after the landmark Paris Agreement enters into force, diplomats from 196 nations gathering in Marrakesh Monday will face intense pressure to translate the climate pact's planet-saving promise into action.
Environment
Nov 3, 2016
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Google's new smart speaker is at once a secretary, a librarian and a radio.
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 3, 2016
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