Being honest about the extent and urgency of the Houston-Galveston region's flooding problem will not harm the community but will form the basis for recovery, according to a paper by an engineering and environmental expert ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2017
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Finding sustainable markets for gin trash, wood chips and other waste products could be viable in producing more electrical power for a growing global population, according to researchers.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 8, 2017
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Fabricating hybrid semiconductor lasers on materials other than the commonly used silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates has proved challenging. Now, A*STAR researchers have developed an innovative technique that can integrate ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 8, 2017
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Do your feet smell bad? Just a little or absolutely awful?
Robotics
Sep 8, 2017
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Investigators suspect French carmaker PSA intentionally built diesel cars that failed to meet pollution rules, the daily Le Monde reported Friday, but the company immediately denied it acted fraudulently.
Business
Sep 8, 2017
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All creatures of the animal kingdom share one thing: the nuclear membrane. Wrapping the genetic core of the cell, this membrane, together with all the attached proteins, plays a vital role in biological functions. Despite ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2017
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A common plant pigment that is also a potent antioxidant could soon be a mainstream health supplement, as A*STAR researchers get closer to making it soluble.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 8, 2017
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In our relationship with nonhumans we decided the fate of our humanity. That is the premise of a new book by Rice professor and acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton. Humankind: Solidarity With Non-Human People ...
Other
Sep 8, 2017
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Collisions between vehicles and wildlife cost California $276 million in 2016, up about 20 percent from the previous year, according to an annual report from the UC Davis Road Ecology Center.
Ecology
Sep 8, 2017
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This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. Resulting from the same process that creates spiral galaxies, spiral density waves in Saturn's ...
Space Exploration
Sep 8, 2017
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