In the UK, road and air transport (both overwhelmingly fossil-fuel based) use energy at a rate twice that of the average power transmission of the national grid. In 2015, road transport alone used energy at an average rate ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Researchers at the Division of Solid-State Physics and the Division of Materials Physics at Uppsala University have shown how the collective dynamics in a structure consisting of interacting magnetic nano-islands can be manipulated. ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 9, 2016
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Urban planning experts at the University of Melbourne have produced an action plan to tackle Victoria's housing affordability crisis.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2016
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Claire Crooks, director of the Faculty of Education's Centre for School Mental Health, led a team that implemented a mentorship program for Grade 7 and 8 Indigenous students in the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB).
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2016
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As a cosmic dust magnet, Saturn's C ring gives away its youth. Once thought formed in an older, primordial era, the ring may be but a mere babe – less than 100 million years old, according to Cornell-led astronomers in ...
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2016
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Early in his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would deport all of the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2016
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An open access Water Atlas goes online today, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from eastern Australia's Surat Basin.
Environment
Dec 9, 2016
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The differences in how male and female fruit flies resist and adapt to oxidative stress may shed new light on how age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's affect men and women differently.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2016
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Scientists on board NASA's flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, caught sight of roiling material streaming from a newly formed star, which could spark the birth of a new generation ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2016
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Japan launched a cargo ship Friday bound for the International Space Station, carrying a 'space junk' collector that was made with the help of a fishnet company.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2016
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