Archaeologists have discovered that a 40-foot mound in Yorkshire, thought to be a Norman castle motte, is actually a unique Iron Age monument, built 2,500 years ago.
Archaeology
Oct 4, 2016
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Tiny marsupials endemic to WA's southwest show resilience in the face of disappearing food and shelter, a Perth study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2016
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How does a set of plant cells grow from a bump into a flat leaf that can efficiently capture sunlight? In a paper published this week in PNAS, EMBL scientists show how different types of molecules on the top and bottom of ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2016
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James Cook University scientists have discovered yet another advantage for cane toads - the ability to make mating calls that carry over a relatively long distance.
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2016
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Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled its latest mobile news application, using both algorithms and user choices to deliver the most relevant updates with a social twist.
Internet
Oct 4, 2016
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(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers, led by Nicolas Martin of the Observatory of Strasbourg in France, has detected a new, very faint stellar system, designated SMASH 1. This compact, very faint system could ...
Wine harvesting season is a challenge for wastewater treatment plants. When the grapes are being processed, the effluent load rises steeply – by a factor of 17 in the Palatinate town of Edenkoben. High-load anaerobic digestion ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 4, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Steven Stanley of the University of Hawaii has challenged the notion that the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event 252 million years ago killed off up to 96 percent ...
News of the first serious accident involving an automated electric vehicle made one of the headlines this summer. The vehicle in question collided with a truck while in autopilot mode. According to the manufacturer, the front ...
Engineering
Oct 4, 2016
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A feature thought to make plants sensitive to drought could actually hold the key to them coping with it better, according to new findings published in eLife.
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2016
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