When a drop of sea spray lands on a rock and heats under the midday sun, the salt crystalizes and falls out of the evaporating water as a crystal—helping to power the Earth's atmosphere and leaving a delicious kernel of ...
Materials Science
Apr 19, 2019
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Your chances of getting a nasty migraine increase following a spinal cord injury, thanks to a chemical messenger in the brain that spikes to toxic levels, past studies have suggested.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 27, 2019
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An estimated 24.9 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking. The majority of these individuals are tricked, threatened, or coerced into forced labor in domestic work, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, ...
Engineering
Feb 8, 2019
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13
Unhappy with the life of your smartphone battery?
Engineering
Jan 24, 2019
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9
Nanotechnology may well be one of the most talked about industries of the last few years. Predicted to value US$173.95 billion globally by 2025, this fast-moving sector is already delivering major sustainability, health and ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2019
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A new computational model could potentially boost efficiencies and profits in natural gas production by better predicting previously hidden fracture mechanics while accurately accounting for the known amounts of gas released ...
Environment
Jan 7, 2019
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Constructing a neural network model for each new dataset is the ultimate nightmare for every data scientist. What if you could forecast the accuracy of the neural network earlier thanks to accumulated experience and approximation? ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2018
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40
Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors—which are only possible with ...
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2018
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9
Until recently, diversity was not a critical priority for highway safety engineers.
Engineering
Oct 2, 2018
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5
Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers. Rainfall ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2018
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