Increased export of Brazilian beef indirectly leads to deforestation in the Amazon. New research from Chalmers and SIK that was recently published in Environmental Science & Technology shows that impact on the climate is ...
Environment
Mar 7, 2011
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Elderly drivers are half as likely to see pedestrians on the sidewalk due to a limited field of view, and compensate in part by driving more slowly, according to a study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2011
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For sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cooking tasks can be both difficult and dangerous. However, a new assistive technology invented by a student from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia offers ...
Other
Mar 7, 2011
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(AP) -- Western Digital Corp. is trying to pull further away in its neck-and-neck race with Seagate Technology PLC to be the world's biggest maker of hard drives.
Business
Mar 7, 2011
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Singapore will more than triple its desalinated water capacity in two years' time when the country's second and largest desalination plant starts operations, the government said Monday.
Other
Mar 7, 2011
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Last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked by an explosion on a BP-leased platform is no reason to stop deep sea drilling, the group's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Monday.
Environment
Mar 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Practice might not always make perfect, but a novel study of Midwestern middle school science students suggests it just might.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2011
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One of the key theories underpinning modern physics is being tested by the latest results from the LHC’s ATLAS experiment.
General Physics
Mar 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the classical world, information can be copied and deleted at will. In the quantum world, however, the conservation of quantum information means that information cannot be created nor destroyed. This concept ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along the edges of a ...
Astronomy
Mar 7, 2011
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