More than 90% of Earth's continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the search for life on other ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2017
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A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, have discovered a new nano-scale thin film material with the highest-ever conductivity in its class. The new material could lead to smaller, faster, and more powerful ...
Nanomaterials
May 5, 2017
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Sonos. It's the gold standard for multi-room audio.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 5, 2017
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Recently in Lawrenceville, Pa., roboticists sat alongside executives of some of the largest manufacturing companies in the country, as hundreds gathered to start a $260 million national initiative headquartered in Pittsburgh.
Robotics
May 5, 2017
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Control of light-matter interaction is central to fundamental phenomena and technologies such as photosynthesis, lasers, LEDs and solar cells. City College of New York researchers have now demonstrated a new class of artificial ...
Optics & Photonics
May 5, 2017
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Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, made a startling discovery: what people had thought was a population of a common species, turned out to be ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2017
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Burger King pulled a pretty juicy marketing stunt last month that drew plenty of attention—not just to the Whopper, but also to the intrinsic vulnerabilities of a new type of voice-activated gadget.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 5, 2017
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Apple has leapt to the lead in wearable computing on strong sales of it smartwatch, a market survey shows.
Business
May 5, 2017
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Researchers in dermatology at Lund University in Sweden believe they have cracked the mystery of why we are able to quickly prevent an infection from spreading uncontrollably in the body during wounding. They believe this ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 5, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a way to make influenza visible to the naked eye, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. By engineering dye molecules to target ...
Biochemistry
May 5, 2017
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