Smartphone users can now collect important data from their gardens to help the battle against climate change and solve the planet's hunger crisis.
Environment
Jul 30, 2018
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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of researchers has detected formic acid in the circumstellar disk of the TW Hydrae system. It is the first discovery of the simplest carboxylic ...
Two Villanova University astrophysics professors led a research team that has discovered the long hidden physical properties of Polaris, popularly known as "The North Star." Until now, scientists' wide-ranging estimates of ...
Astronomy
Jul 30, 2018
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The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information – called "dezinformatsiya" after the Russian word ...
Internet
Jul 30, 2018
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A team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has found a way to use nanowires to build all-optical logic gates—a major step toward building a light-based computer. In their paper published in the journal Science ...
Adding certain types of bacteria to soil could help protect plants against drought by activating a proton pump in root cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 30, 2018
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Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider's bread and butter, but that doesn't mean it can't crave more exotic tastes from time to time. On Wednesday, 25 July, for the very first time, operators injected not just atomic ...
General Physics
Jul 30, 2018
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Every five years, the US Census Bureau conducts an economic census, providing official benchmark measures of American business and the economy. Despite being less well-known than the population census, the economic census—based ...
Mathematics
Jul 30, 2018
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When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data – Google and Facebook are just two examples. But what if you were the one making the money?
Internet
Jul 30, 2018
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Most consumers trust supermarkets more than online-only retail giants such as ASOS, according to new research from Monash University released today.
Economics & Business
Jul 30, 2018
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