Banking on change: Tech startups target financial services
It may not be much longer before bank branches join video-rental stores and record shops as relics of a bygone era.
Business
Dec 8, 2016
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Scheduling leisure activities makes them less fun: study
Nothing ruins a potentially fun event like putting it on your calendar. In a series of studies, researchers found that scheduling a leisure activity like seeing a movie or taking a coffee break led people to anticipate less ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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Chemical trickery corrals 'hyperactive' metal-oxide cluster
After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal-oxide clusters have been isolated in water, a significant advance for growing the clusters with the impeccable control over atoms that's required ...
Materials Science
Dec 8, 2016
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Vardah spinning near Andaman Islands
As NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Bay of Bengal, Tropical Cyclone 05B was renamed Vardah and continued moving away from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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The 2016 Ocean Health Index shows no major declines—and few real improvements
The results are in, and while the world's oceans show no significant decline over the past year, their condition should not be mistaken as a clean bill of health.
Ecology
Dec 8, 2016
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RNA modification important for brain function
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have shown that a new way of regulating genes is vital for the activity of the nervous system. They found that this form ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 8, 2016
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Wait times at polls in 2016 election improved in several key states, new survey results show
While many voters reported long lines at polling locations around the country during the 2012 presidential election, this year the overall amount of time people had to wait to vote improved significantly, according to a new ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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Metaphoring the police: It's all about the right choice of word
A well-chosen metaphor does wonders to explain concepts, to persuade and to ensure buy-in into any given matter. So says Paul Thibodeau of Oberlin College in the US, lead author of an article in Springer's journal Psychonomic ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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Closer look at life-cycle impacts of lithium-ion batteries and proton exchange membrane fuel cells
Does it really help to drive an electric car if the electricity you use to charge the batteries come from a coal mine in Germany, or if the batteries were manufactured in China using coal?
Nanophysics
Dec 8, 2016
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Jefferson Lab-NVIDIA collaboration uses Titan's to boost subatomic particle research
Scientists are only beginning to understand the laws that govern the atomic world.
Computer Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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