(Phys.org) —Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors when subjected to magnetic fields or high pressures –discoveries that have implications for controlling electrons in those special materials. According ...
Superconductivity
Jan 6, 2014
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Roku Inc. is launching a line of TVs that play video from services like Netflix without requiring a set-top box. While similar to smart TVs on the market already, the company's Internet streaming platform offers some 1,200 ...
Telecom
Jan 6, 2014
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A new biography of Darcus Howe, which offers the first detailed history of Britain's little-known Black Power movement, claims that the racism it fought is being overlooked in modern narratives about the nation's past.
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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Do you have a special way of getting to work or to a favorite restaurant? If so, then your cognitive map is doing its job.
Other
Jan 6, 2014
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By using Twitter—the social network whose users communicate in "tweets" no more than 140 characters long—a Buffalo teacher engaged a group of high school students in a spirited discussion of a novel.
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by now you might have seen dramatic images of passengers on stranded icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy being rescued by helicopter last Friday after becoming lodged ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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Gil Henkin '14 is a physics major, but that doesn't prevent him from working magic. In the lab in 222 Abelson, the young scientist conjures mesmerizing images of microscopic systems in motion.
General Physics
Jan 6, 2014
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(Phys.org) —There is a lab in the engineering complex at Montana State University where grow lights stay on night and day, even during the winter holiday season, nurturing various bubbling containers of bright green algae. ...
Biotechnology
Jan 6, 2014
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(Phys.org) —It started over a poker game. Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and his students were playing cards (for chips) last summer, chatting about Facebook. They wondered: If there were time travelers among us, would ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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Male stickleback fish are bolder and more willing to take risks than females, say scientists.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2014
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