Researcher's new conservation tool: a wooden post
The latest tool for protecting one of Victoria’s most important wetlands is a simple wooden post.
Environment
Mar 9, 2012
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How species evolve: Epilogue to 'On the Origin of Species'?
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the grand challenges in biology is to understand how species evolve. Today, more than 150 years after the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, we still do not truly understand ...
Evolution
Mar 9, 2012
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New design for a metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells
Metamaterials are a new class of artificial substances with properties unlike anything found in the natural world. Some have been designed to act as invisibility cloaks; others as superlenses, antenna systems or highly sensitive ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 9, 2012
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Are charismatic leaders born or made?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Are leaders successful because of their charisma? Or do they develop charisma by being good leaders?
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2012
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New software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of multicore-chip designs
For the last decade or so, computer chip manufacturers have been increasing the speed of their chips by giving them extra processing units, or “cores.” Most major manufacturers now offer chips with eight, 10 or ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 9, 2012
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New type of extra-chromosomal DNA discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina in the US have discovered a previously unidentified type of small circular DNA molecule occurring outside the chromosomes ...
Pacific nation may buy Fiji land as climate refuge
(AP) -- Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.
Environment
Mar 9, 2012
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Literal Lucy to the rescue: A new way to distinguish between literal meaning and contextual meaning
A new linguistic study of how individuals interpret various types of utterances sheds more light on how literal and contextual meaning are distinguished. The study, "A novel empirical paradigm for distinguishing between What ...
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2012
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Australia probes claims turtles, dugongs butchered alive
Australia Friday vowed to investigate claims that turtles and the threatened dugong are being killed to feed an illegal meat trade after images of an animal being butchered alive sparked new concerns.
Ecology
Mar 9, 2012
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Investors to get Google records on online drug ads
(AP) -- A Delaware judge has given Google Inc. until April 9 to give a pension fund investors company documents involving what authorities said was the illegal online marketing of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers by ...
Internet
Mar 9, 2012
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