In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 60 percent of city dwellers live in slums, and population pressures have led to unplanned development lacking basic infrastructure, such as water lines.
Environment
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For the past three years, two of Lambertus Hesselink's graduate students have been planning, building and calibrating a nano-conveyor belt. The one-of-a-kind experiment is about the size of a billiard table, and consists ...
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2013
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For more than three years, Victoria University of Wellington graduand Bronwyn McGovern sat with Blanket Man or Brother as the well-known homeless person was also known, as fieldwork for her thesis 'A life lived on the corner'. ...
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2013
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An international team of scientists have begun a major investigation into the complex meteorology of West Africa including how rapidly increasing air pollution is affecting the monsoon.
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2013
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While women hold only one in eight of the executive and board positions in California's top 400 public companies, an annual University of California, Davis, study shows incremental progress—the percentage of women in these ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2013
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Spider webs actively spring towards prey thanks to electrically conductive glue spread across their surface, Oxford University scientists have discovered.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Artifacts found at an archaeological site in Cyprus support a new theory that humans occupied the tiny Mediterranean island about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed – a discovery that fills an important ...
Archaeology
Dec 9, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instruments.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Squeezing through a gap called the International Postbox and climbing the jagged Dragon's Back were not in Alia Gurtov's plans for the fall semester, but she made an exception in order to participate in a wildly ...
Archaeology
Dec 9, 2013
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Silicon Valley is escalating pressure on President Barack Obama to curb the U.S. government surveillance programs that vacuum personal information off the Internet and threaten the technology industry's financial livelihood.
Internet
Dec 9, 2013
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