It was a proud but sad moment when NASA announced that mission control had lost the signal from the Cassini spacecraft on September 15. As it takes the signal over an hour to travel from Saturn to Earth, this meant that the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2017
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Keep an eye on the picnic basket. Bear sightings are surging across Connecticut.
Ecology
Jan 13, 2017
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While invasive species are considered to be a primary driver of biodiversity loss across the globe, species such as the alien for Germany giant hogweed pose even greater risks, including health hazards to humans, limited ...
Ecology
Oct 3, 2016
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The genes of some chickens make them almost completely resistant to a serious strain of bird flu, new research has revealed.
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2016
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With over two-thirds of U.S. adults owning a smartphone, and the rise in miniaturized sensors and low-power body area networks that are used for remote health monitoring, mobile health (mHealth) is beginning to experience ...
Security
Jul 13, 2016
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The chemical control of harmful nematodes is being limited in an increasing number of countries. Instead of using chemicals, farmers and horticulturalists must now control this pest in the soil. The Netherlands has a wealth ...
Biotechnology
Dec 17, 2015
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For breeding western snowy plovers—small, federally protected shorebirds that nest along the Pacific coast—the list of predators is long. Predation management for the species serves to control some of the bird's most ...
Ecology
Oct 2, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Maxwell's demon, the hypothetical doorman that controls how particles travel between two chambers in an attempt to decrease entropy, is at its heart a feedback-controlled system. The demon makes measurements ...
A robot ship will be launched from Kourou, French Guiana, after a five-day delay on July 29 to deliver provisions to the International Space Station, space transport firm Arianespace said Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2014
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In a study published in Nature this week, a team of researchers based at the University of Warwick has produced the first national model to investigate the bovine TB spread.
Ecology
Jul 2, 2014
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