The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved the world's fastest optical communications speed for data centres by reaching 240 G bit/s over 2km, 24 times of the existing speed available in the market. Compared ...
Telecom
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Colleague today, competitor tomorrow: Moving to a rival firm leads to a conflict of identities - and causes movers to focus their competitive impulses on their former employer, as a study by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...
Economics & Business
Apr 7, 2016
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In this context, the framing of asylum seekers as a 'burden' emerges, along with an economic rationale that values asylum accommodation for the profit it may bring, rather than the questions of social justice it raises.
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2016
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Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard.
Engineering
Apr 7, 2016
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The genetic information we receive from our parents in the form of chromosomes are mosaics assembled from the two copies of chromosomes each parent has. How such cuts—or breaks—in our genetic material are repaired is ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2016
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Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In many cases, yeast strains sold by different companies were almost genetically ...
Biotechnology
Apr 7, 2016
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Researchers have made great strides in determining how long a human body has been dead by looking at characteristics of bones subjected to the elements. In one of the first studies looking at freezing and thawing specifically, ...
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2016
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Renata Minullina and Abhishek Panchal, biomedical engineering graduate students from Louisiana Tech University and the Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM), have won the prestigious Poster Presentation Award at the Polymer ...
Materials Science
Apr 7, 2016
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Why do wasps become more aggressive after you kill one of the hive members? The answer is the same reason why you should be wary of bees that smell like bananas. Here's another question: Why does some metal rust?
Other
Apr 7, 2016
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Daily deal websites, such as Groupon and LivingSocial, have emerged as a popular way for small local merchants to conduct online promotions, but unlike other online and offline discount sources, they continually track and ...
Economics & Business
Apr 7, 2016
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