2017 likely to be third warmest year on record
The latest estimate for 2017 suggests the year will be the second or third warmest in a record stretching back to 1850.
Environment
Nov 6, 2017
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Crime-scene technique used to track turtles
Scientists have used satellite tracking and a crime-scene technique to discover an important feeding ground for green turtles in the Mediterranean.
Ecology
Nov 6, 2017
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How much does a kilogram weigh?
The kilogram doesn't weigh a kilogram any more. This sad news was announced during a seminar at CERN on Thursday, 26 October by Professor Klaus von Klitzing, who was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery ...
General Physics
Nov 6, 2017
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A force-driven mechanism for establishing cell polarity
A team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore, along with colleagues from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2017
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The element erbium could pave the way to a quantum internet
If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you got to the rare earth elements.
Quantum Physics
Nov 6, 2017
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Research team creates powerful system to identify biological threats
A team led by investigators from the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech has been selected through a competitive process to participate in a multimillion dollar program sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research ...
Engineering
Nov 6, 2017
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Antiferromagnetic dysprosium reveals magnetic switching with less energy
Dysprosium is not only the atomic element with the strongest magnetic moments, but it also possesses another interesting property: Its magnetic moments point either all the same direction (ferromagnetism) or are tilted against ...
General Physics
Nov 6, 2017
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Forest of molecular signals observed in star-forming galaxy
Ryo Ando, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues have observed the galaxy NGC 253 and resolved its locations of star formation down to the scale of a molecular cloud, a star formation site with ...
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2017
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The future of climate refugees
As climate change causes sea levels to rise, vulnerable populations in countries like Tuvalu, Bangladesh and Vietnam are threatened with the very real prospect of losing their homes and migrating inland.
Environment
Nov 6, 2017
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A fleeting visit—an asteroid from another planetary system just shot past Earth
The discovery of an unusual small object in the solar system last month caught the imagination of the global astronomical community. Scientists around the world were asking "what is it?" and "where did it come from?"
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2017
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