To attract and maintain a diverse, qualified academic workforce, institutions of higher education should have—and promote—policies to help balance career and family life, according to an article published by UC Davis ...
Social Sciences
Jun 5, 2013
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A new species of scorpion Tityus (Atreus) crassicauda has been discovered from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the Ecuadorian Andes. The intriguing new species is classed as medium sized, but still around ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2013
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When local police came calling with child porn allegations last January, former Saint John city councillor Donnie Snook fled his house clutching a laptop. It was clear that the computer contained damning data. Six months ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 5, 2013
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How much will BP pay to compensate for damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster? One article in a three-part cover package on the disaster in this week's edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) focuses on ...
Environment
Jun 5, 2013
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If you've been on or near the water, you've seen it—the plastic trash that litters oceans, lakes, and streams worldwide. But visible plastic—soda bottles, lighters, flip-flops, combs, rope—may be the least of the problem. ...
Environment
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Today's nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technologies, like quantum information processing and nuclear spintronic technologies, are based on an intrinsic quantum property ...
General Physics
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered surprising changes in electrical resistivity in iron-based superconductors. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, offer ...
Superconductivity
Jun 5, 2013
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Bubbles in a champagne glass may add a festive fizz to the drink, but microscopic bubbles that form in a material called metallic glass can signal serious trouble. In this normally high-strength material, bubbles may indicate ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new flow-based method for manipulating and confining single particles in free solution, a process that will help address current ...
Nanophysics
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world.
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2013
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