It's not often you get to raise a clutch of stick insects that can grow to nearly 60cm long. But I was given the rare privilege of doing so recently when I nursed the batch of eggs laid by the longest Australian phasmid, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in the U.S., Korea and China has developed a new way to make bilayer graphene that is higher in quality than that produced through any other known process. ...
Teflon and Kevlar are man-made materials that have changed the world. They were also invented by accident.
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2016
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After months of planning there is one thing even the most prepared expedition leader can't control: the weather. For UTS marine biologist, Associate Professor David Suggett, the stakes are high. He and a team of his researchers ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2016
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Building houses far apart and in locales beyond town—the wildland-urban interface—increases firefighting costs in the Rocky Mountain West, according to a new report from the Open Spaces Initiative at the University of ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2016
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If you enter "Oklahoma" in a search engine, you might get a travelogue, news about the oil industry, Oklahoma State football scores or an article on Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. What appears at the top of the list might ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 8, 2016
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More than 75,000 ticketholders will fill Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for Super Bowl 50, but more than one million people are expected to take part in activities nearby. A large portion of them will fly into ...
Engineering
Feb 8, 2016
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New research released by the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre at Dublin City University, ahead of Safer Internet Day (9th February), has flagged up some worrying trends in internet safety for Irish children, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2016
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Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the 'Asian Century', and it's shaping up to be that way also for human origins science.
Archaeology
Feb 8, 2016
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A group of scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University studied histamine molecules in the gas phase using an electron beam. The study involved both experiment and calculations, and the results have been published in ...
Biochemistry
Feb 8, 2016
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