London police to wear body cameras in year-long trial
Police officers across London will wear video cameras when responding to emergency calls as part of a year-long pilot project launched on Thursday.
Hi Tech & Innovation
May 8, 2014
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Swarm's precise sense of magnetism
(Phys.org) —Although they were launched only five months ago, ESA's trio of Swarm satellites are already delivering results with a precision that took earlier missions 10 years to achieve.
Space Exploration
May 8, 2014
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EasyJet to deploy inspection drones for aircrafts
EasyJet, the UK's largest airline, has today announced it is working with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a partnership between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, to modify existing technology ...
Engineering
May 8, 2014
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Exoskeleton to remote-control robot
Visionary 'rocket scientists' will share their ideas on Thursday, 8 May at the TEDx RocketMinds event at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
Robotics
May 8, 2014
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Scientists look beyond alarming milestone in carbon dioxide levels
The world made a down payment on decades of dangerous weather last month, reaching an average atmospheric carbon dioxide level above 400 parts per million.
Environment
May 8, 2014
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Scientists discover channel used by catalyst to produce ammonia, vital for food and fuel crops
(Phys.org) —Mother Nature's helper in turning nitrogen from the air into ammonia is an enzyme called nitrogenase that uses molybdenum and iron; scientists want to learn natural catalyst's secrets and apply them to synthetic ...
Biochemistry
May 8, 2014
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Student research leads to method for developing clean hydrogen fuel
(Phys.org) —Recycling waste materials into new products is a common method for sustaining a green environment, but it isn't only limited to reusing old cans, plastics, and paper. In chemistry, scientists use discarded ...
Materials Science
May 8, 2014
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Tech review: Keeping tabs on your kids' phone activity
I've received emails over the years from worried parents asking me how they can monitor the phone use of their teenagers, especially in this age of smartphones with their many different ways of communicating.
Software
May 8, 2014
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Why a bacterium got its curve—and why biologists should know
Drawing from his engineering background, Princeton University researcher Alexandre Persat had a notion as to why the bacteria Caulobacter crescentus are curved—a hunch that now could lead to a new way of studying the evolution ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2014
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Japan institute rejects 'phoney' research scientist appeal
A respected Japanese institute that sponsored stem cell research hailed as groundbreaking said Thursday the young scientist who wrote the paper should withdraw it, adding it stood by its conclusion that she fabricated data.
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2014
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