Researchers have created a new optical lens that is flat, rather than curved like traditional glass lenses. The unique optical properties available from the flat lens could help reduce the size of computer hard drives and ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 8, 2016
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Twitter can be an engaging communication tool for building a learning community according to research just published in the International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments. Scott Warren of the ...
Internet
Jun 8, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram has found that stripes on lizards cause predators to see them as moving slower than they actually are, causing ...
EU researchers have found that a single tree species may perform many different ecosystem activities, meaning that biodiversity is both between and within species.
Environment
Jun 8, 2016
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Electrocatalysis will play an increasingly important role in future in the transition to more sustainable energy. Thanks to chemist Isis Ledezma Yanez, we now know more about the hydrogen evolution process. PhD defence on ...
Materials Science
Jun 8, 2016
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It is impossible to see when the "lead" in a pencil cracks within the pencil, but an acoustic sensor can "hear" the change in the way the pencil vibrates. Now, researchers in China have reported in the International Journal ...
Engineering
Jun 8, 2016
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Single mothers in Georgia who participate in the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) experience greater income mobility than males, whites and people with disabilities according to a study ...
Social Sciences
Jun 8, 2016
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The scratch was deep, two feet long, and spattered with paint flecks. Another vehicle had clearly grazed the side of Duke graduate student Jin Yu's silver Honda Accord.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 8, 2016
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A final-year student at the University of Dundee has used his dissertation to find more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes.
Other
Jun 8, 2016
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Government employees in Singapore will soon lose their internet access at work to make official information systems more secure, authorities said Wednesday.
Security
Jun 8, 2016
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