By comparing radar images of areas on Titan to those of Earth's deserts, scientists have identified two distinct types of sand dune on Saturn's largest moon – and discovered eroded structures that indicate that Titan's ...
Space Exploration
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Tufts researchers have pioneered a new way to study the properties of cells at unprecedented resolutions and speed, allowing them to examine more precisely, for example, the differences between cancer cells and healthy ones. ...
Nanophysics
Nov 6, 2015
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Spend 10 minutes on social media, and you'll learn that people love infographics. But why, exactly, do we gravitate towards articles with titles like "24 Diagrams to Help You Eat Healthier" and "All You Need To Know About ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 6, 2015
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Swarming locusts interact with at least two of their neighbours when aligning themselves in order to march in the same direction, says new research led by our mathematicians.
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2015
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Erik Blomberg, assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine, wanted to bring the massive declines in bat populations to the public's attention and to educate ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2015
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Imagine you're a researcher working outdoors in a New Orleans summer. It's 100 degrees, and you're going door-to-door in neighborhoods where people have grown tired of being studied by outsiders in the decade since Hurricane ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2015
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This image from Sentinel-2A on 13 August features Cairo, in Egypt.
Earth Sciences
Nov 6, 2015
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(Phys.org)—High-energy protons, nuclei, and other particles are constantly showering down on Earth's atmosphere from space, but the origins of these cosmic rays is unknown. One possibility is that the cosmic rays come from ...
Some 60 environment and energy ministers are to huddle from Sunday in Paris to narrow disagreements in a global climate pact to be inked in December.
Environment
Nov 6, 2015
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After emerging from an eight-day space simulation on Friday, the all-female Russian crew said they had missed their loved ones in the experiment more than they missed the comforts of regular life.
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2015
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