Influential MIT economist Lester Thurow dies at 77
Lester Thurow, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who addressed the challenges and consequences of a global economy, has died. He was 77.
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Hybrid pixel array detectors enter the low-noise regime
The detector group at the Swiss Light Source at PSI has been one of the pioneers in the development of custom-made hybrid pixel array detectors (HPADs) for synchrotron applications. In a paper published recently [Jungmann-Smith ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 30, 2016
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Black wattle's new biogeographic distribution threatens flight safety in China
Black wattle, flowering trees also known as the Australian acacia, have been observed to rapidly spread around local airports in Yunnan province, southwestern China. According to the ecologists, this alien species and its ...
Ecology
Mar 30, 2016
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Simulating supermassive black holes
Near the edge of the visible Universe are some of the brightest objects ever observed, known as quasars, which are believed to contain supermassive black holes of more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Simulations ...
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2016
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Kenya ivory amnesty ahead of record-breaking tusk burning
Kenya on Wednesday launched a three-week amnesty to hand in ivory and rhino horn ahead of the world's biggest burning of ivory next month.
Ecology
Mar 30, 2016
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Exploring the "informal" economy on the streets of Cochabamba
What do Bolivian street vendors have in common with adjunct professors in the United States?
Economics & Business
Mar 30, 2016
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Study of ancient Japanese hunter-gatherers suggests warfare not inherent in human nature
(Phys.org)—A team of Japanese researchers (and one from the U.K.) has found evidence in the remains of ancient Japanese people that suggests that people are not necessarily predisposed to living a violent existence or even ...
Why being bold all comes down to evolution
Chevalier Blondin was 35 years old when in 1859, with no safety harness and no net beneath him, he first tightrope-walked nearly half a kilometre across the Niagara Gorge. At different times over the coming years, he would ...
Evolution
Mar 30, 2016
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Automatic test-generation technologies to limit excessive testing work in agile software development
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of automatic test-generation technologies to limit excessive testing work and enhance efficiencies for agile development - an evolutionary approach to developing software ...
Software
Mar 30, 2016
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'Smoothed' light for directly imaging exoplanets
Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed optical technology for the "correction" of light coming from distant stars, ...
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2016
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