Most of Europe has experienced strong summer warming over the course of the past several decades, accompanied by severe heat waves in 2003, 2010 and 2015. New research now puts the current warmth in a 2100-year historical ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2016
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Scientists working at Loughborough University, UK, and the University of Cordoba, Spain, have developed a new method for the rapid diagnosis of poisoning in apparently drunk patients.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 7, 2016
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Researchers at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia have drawn inspiration from the way kestrels hover above their prey to develop an autonomous fixed-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) that can gain height from convenient ...
Engineering
Dec 17, 2015
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Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account.
Environment
Nov 26, 2015
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Scientists have developed a graphene based microphone nearly 32 times more sensitive than microphones of standard nickel-based construction.
Nanomaterials
Nov 26, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Auckland have developed a soft, flexible, stretchable keyboard using a type of rubber known as a dielectric elastomer.
Engineering
Nov 24, 2015
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Is freshwater supply more dependent on good governance than geography? Scientists have analysed 19 different characteristics critical to water supply management in 119 low per capita income countries and found that vulnerability ...
Environment
Oct 23, 2015
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Scientists have projected that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks earlier over the next century, as a result of rising global temperatures.
Environment
Oct 13, 2015
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Long-range winter weather forecasts could be twice as accurate by taking account of unusual winds miles up in the stratosphere, scientists have found.
Environment
Oct 12, 2015
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These findings, reported today, Friday 9th October, in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomechanics, offer a new insight into how animals respond to different terrain, and how robots can learn from them.
Robotics
Oct 8, 2015
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