Using data from a 33-year population study, University of Maine researchers have found evidence that various tree species can affect rodent populations in different ways.
Ecology
Jul 6, 2017
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With the introduction of CBETA, the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists are following up on the concept of energy-recovering particle accelerators first ...
General Physics
Jul 6, 2017
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Solitary waves – known as solitons – appear in many forms. Perhaps the most recognizable is the tsunami, which forms following a disruption on the ocean floor and can travel, unabated, at high speeds for hundreds of miles.
Quantum Physics
Jul 6, 2017
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If there is anywhere for carbon dioxide to disappear in large quantities from the atmosphere, it is into the Earth's oceans. There, huge populations of plankton can soak up carbon dioxide from surface waters and gobble it ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2017
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Nuclear magnetic resonance scanners, as are familiar from hospitals, are now extremely sensitive. A quantum sensor developed by a team headed by Professor Jörg Wrachtrup at the University of Stuttgart and researchers at ...
General Physics
Jul 6, 2017
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Volcanoes erupt when magma rises through cracks in the Earth's crust, but the exact processes that lead to the melting of rocks in the Earth's mantle below are difficult to study.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2017
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Mountain forests are better at storing carbon – well, actually, they're better at everything – according to a new study by researchers at NSF-funded projects CyVerse, Jetstream, and the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory.
Environment
Jul 6, 2017
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Death investigators may soon be able to rely on tiny insect eggs to rapidly estimate a corpse's time-of-death.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 6, 2017
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China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) made an important advance by achieving a stable 101.2-second steady-state high confinement plasma, setting a world record in long-pulse H-mode operation on the ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 6, 2017
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Professor Ana Mancera Rueda from the Department of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Literary Theory at the University of Seville has carried out research on false profiles, or 'fakes', of famous people on the social network ...
Internet
Jul 6, 2017
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