As evidence mounts that Germanwings flight 4U9525 was crashed deliberately by its co-pilot who locked the flight's captain out of the cockpit, there have been renewed calls to enforce a "two-person rule", where two members ...
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Mar 30, 2015
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It was another good week for physics as researchers at Ohio State University conducted a landmark study that proved that magnets can control heat and sound—they demonstrated a magnetic field reducing the amount of heat ...
Moral suspicion trickles down social hierarchies, making a top leader's ethical transgressions especially damaging for the careers and reputations of colleagues and subordinates, according to new Stanford research.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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The UK's ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, is now back in action after considerable upgrades over the last six months.
General Physics
Mar 30, 2015
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A Purdue University researcher ranks among the best in the world in bioinformatics competitions to predict protein structure, docking and function, making him a triple threat in the world of protein modeling.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2015
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An unusual and very exciting form of carbon - that can be created by drawing on paper- looks to hold the key to real-time, high throughput DNA sequencing, a technique that would revolutionise medical research and testing.
Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2015
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All Virginia Commonwealth University professor Robert Meganck wanted was a better technique to teach color theory to his students.
Other
Mar 30, 2015
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A new UK start-up company is about to revolutionize the way in which civil engineering and construction companies choose where to build, by telling them what's under the ground before they start digging. The information could ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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The 20-foot (6-meter) "golden lasso" reflector antenna atop NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory is now ready to wrangle up high-resolution global soil moisture data, following the successful completion ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2015
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You can be thankful that we bask in the glow of a relatively placid star. Currently about halfway along its 10 billion year career on the Main Sequence, our sun fuses hydrogen into helium in a battle against gravitational ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2015
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