All living things require proteins, members of a vast family of molecules that nature "makes to order" according to the blueprints in DNA.
Biochemistry
Dec 7, 2015
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The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time Monday, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean ...
Other
Dec 7, 2015
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Designers of Christmas cards used fine art on their products to divert attention away from concerns that that the festival was becoming too commercialised, a University of Exeter academic has found.
Other
Dec 7, 2015
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The battle over the world's coffee drinkers is getting hotter.
Business
Dec 7, 2015
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It is not only size that matters when planning a protected area, other spatial features such as shape are also critical to the number of animal species found there. A new study from the University of Exeter assessed the spatial ...
Ecology
Dec 7, 2015
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One of the greatest challenges in the evolution of electronics has been to reduce power consumption during transistor switching operation. In a study recently reported in Nature, engineers at University of California, Santa ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 7, 2015
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Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Earthquakes along those faults typically ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2015
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According to a RAC survey more than 4,500 miles of roads in Britain are out of range of any mobile phone network, while 14,500 miles lack any high-speed 3G coverage. In a rich developed country like the UK mobile phone coverage ...
Telecom
Dec 7, 2015
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Talks on a universal climate pact shifted to a higher gear Monday, with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging governments to set off an "energy revolution" to rein in heat-trapping carbon emissions and avert disastrous ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2015
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Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will unveil a proposal for a new "exit tax" aimed at cracking down on corporate inversions, a practice that permits U.S. companies to merge with corporations overseas to lower their tax bill.
Business
Dec 7, 2015
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