Last week was a particularly grim one for private space flights. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave Desert, about 150km north of Los Angeles, killing a pilot, Michael Alsbury, and seriously injuring another, ...
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2014
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an innovative magnetometer that can replace conventional technology in applications such as neuroimaging, mineral exploration and molecular diagnostics. Its manufacturing ...
General Physics
Nov 5, 2014
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Many species are on the cusp of disappearing forever, from the Yosemite toad to the cave katydid in South Africa. One of the pivotal tipping points is when a population becomes very small and is geographically isolated. Then, ...
Ecology
Nov 5, 2014
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JRC scientists have developed a new index to measure the magnitude of heat waves, in cooperation with colleagues from five research organisations. According to the index projections, under the worst climate scenario of temperature ...
Environment
Nov 5, 2014
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In the study published in Science, the researchers were interested in Robusta coffee because of its average sized genome (710 million pairs of DNA bases) and its diploid nature (contrary to Coffea arabica, which is tetraploid). ...
Biotechnology
Nov 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from Japan and the U.S. has found that at least for one marine mammal, adding blubber provides a foraging advantage. As the team writes in their paper published in Proceedings ...
Recently, Spaniards had to re-tune all television sets as a result of the introduction of 4G mobile networks. Their data transmission speed (10 times higher than the 3rd generation's) required a release of the frequency band ...
Telecom
Nov 5, 2014
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Researchers at UPM have shown good results by using products that facilitate olive tree rooting and are authorized for organic farming.
Ecology
Nov 5, 2014
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The solar chromosphere is the region between the Sun's surface and its hot, million-degree corona. Within this complex interface zone, only a few thousand kilometers deep, the density of the gas drops by a factor of about ...
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2014
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Imagine a sky full of autonomous flying machines delivering anything from fast-food to important documents, medical supplies or just a surprise gift for someone special. How do you stop them all colliding with each other ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2014
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