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General Physics Mar 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking's death lights up the Twitterverse

Stephen Hawking's death on Wednesday left the universe a slightly dimmer place but lit up social media as academics, politicians and celebrities alike praised a scientist whose appeal crossed time, space and cultural boundaries.

Engineering Mar 8, 2018

Drone rapidly converts aerial photos into valuable information about crop health

Progeny Drone Inc., a Purdue-affiliated startup, has created software that rapidly converts aerial crop photos into useful information for plant breeding, crop modeling and precision agriculture.

Optics & Photonics Mar 7, 2018

Programmable multicore optical fibres set to keep movies and music streaming into late 2020s

The volume of data traffic traversing the world's optical fibre networks is growing by more than 40 percent per year as data-hungry services like streaming audio and video become ever more popular. So that future networks ...

Plants & Animals Mar 5, 2018

Beyond beasts of burden—how to reward our animals for their work

Animals do a lot for us. So what should we do for them?

Environment Feb 28, 2018

Italy, China propose solution to Lake Chad's water problem

It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie "Black Panther".

Environment Feb 27, 2018

Why scientists have modelled the climate right up to the year 2300

The seas will continue to rise for 300 years. That's the conclusion of a new study, published in Nature Communications, which projects how much the sea level will rise under varying degrees of success in tackling climate ...

Security Feb 16, 2018

Cyberattacks are costly, and things could get worse: US report

Cyberattacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a "spillover" effect for the broader economy if the situation worsens.

Business Feb 9, 2018

Waymo, Uber end trade secrets theft trial with settlement (Update)

Waymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google self-driving car project.

Engineering Jan 27, 2018

Earthquake engineers conduct research on steel collectors

An award-winning team of researchers at the University of Arizona and partnering universities is working to develop buildings that will not collapse under the force of major earthquakes, such as last year's 7.1-magnitude ...

Mathematics Jan 12, 2018

Why do we need to know about prime numbers with millions of digits?

Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one. They are a mathematical mystery, the secrets of which mathematicians have been trying to uncover ever since Euclid proved that they ...

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