Penguin colonies at risk from erupting volcano
A volcano erupting on a small island in the Sub Antarctic is depositing ash over one of the world's largest penguin colonies.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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Children's purchasing behavior 'significantly impacted' by social media and mobile apps
Exposure to prompts to make in-app purchases in mobile games has a significant impact on children's purchasing behaviour, according to a recent study funded by the European Commission involving Dr Giuseppe Veltri, who now ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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Why important innovations stall; understanding obstacles to change is key to future
Disruptive, transformative technologies are being introduced at an accelerating pace, fuelling opposition that impedes forms of innovation needed to meet profound challenges such as climate change, poverty and world hunger, ...
Economics & Business
Jul 6, 2016
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How to get moral 'free-riders' to cooperate
What motivates people to contribute to trustful moral judgment, which is a public good yet tends to be costly? This is 'the moral free rider problem'. Mathematician Tatsuya Sasaki from University of Vienna and colleagues ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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The taming of the rat
If you worry about having a pet rat in case it bites you, then you can relax. Recent research has found that a domesticated strain of rat selectively bred for tameness never bites human handlers.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2016
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'The Blob' overshadows El Nino
El Niño exerted powerful effects around the globe in the last year, eroding California beaches; driving drought in northern South America, Africa and Asia; and bringing record rain to the U.S. Pacific Northwest and southern ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2016
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Major energy savings when computers learn to share
Computer scientists have developed a tweak for computer operating systems that could make large data centres 25 per cent more efficient by sharing their processing power.Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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Synthesis of complex molecules displaying potential biological and catalytic activity
Chiral molecules possess asymmetry; like left and right hands, their mirror images cannot be superposed. Molecules with identical chemical makeup but different chirality can display different activity. Therefore, chirality ...
Materials Science
Jul 6, 2016
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Suction cup mat based on octopus's suckers developed to build flexible pressure sensors
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at South Korea's National Institute of Science and Technology has found a way to make building flexible pressure sensors easier—by mimicking the suction cups on octopus's tentacles. ...
Image: Netherlands imaged by Proba-V
A false-colour image of the Netherlands, as seen in infrared by ESA's Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation shown in red, woodland in red–brown and built-up areas as green.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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