A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has challenged the notion that some nations' citizens are happier than others, finding that inequalities within nations have a greater influence on people's happiness.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
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Solar powered 3-D printers designed to repurpose ubiquitous plastic rubbish and help improve access to clean water supply have been successfully trialled in the Solomon Islands.
Environment
Mar 7, 2018
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Electrons in graphene—an atomically thin, flexible and incredibly strong substance that has captured the imagination of materials scientists and physicists alike—move at the speed of light, and behave like they have no ...
Nanophysics
Mar 7, 2018
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A consequence of advanced manufacturing technologies is that some internal structures tend to be inaccessible and so quality control is necessarily destructive. This is clearly problematic for high-added value products, where ...
Engineering
Mar 7, 2018
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With the unprecedented promise that the EU-supported EISCAT3D radar infrastructure holds for investigation into near-earth space phenomena, system accuracy and efficiency is paramount. The recently closed EISCAT3D_PfP project ...
Space Exploration
Mar 7, 2018
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The volume of data traffic traversing the world's optical fibre networks is growing by more than 40 percent per year as data-hungry services like streaming audio and video become ever more popular. So that future networks ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 7, 2018
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Preparing the perfect nanoscale sandwich from oxygen-based ingredients was no picnic.
Nanophysics
Mar 7, 2018
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A new study has, for the first time, cut a clear path through a nettlesome problem: accurately measuring a powerful effect on global sea level that lingers from the last ice age.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
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Designing climate experiments is all but impossible in the real world. We can't, for instance, study the effects of clouds by taking away all the clouds for a set period of time and seeing what happens.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
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Certain ants attack and enslave other species, and integrate their offspring into their own colonies in order to survive. Researchers at the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2018
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