People have long been intrigued by figuring out the center of the places where we live.
Earth Sciences
Apr 3, 2017
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A team of Spanish scientists, with the participation of the University of Granada, has carried out the first durum wheat genetic, phenotypic and geographic adaptation study to date. Durum wheat is mostly used for the production ...
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2017
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Geographic proximity to Internal Revenue Service offices makes it more likely public companies will face an audit, but those companies also engage in greater tax avoidance, according to a study led by a University of Kansas ...
Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2017
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Thecamoebians are amoebae that have evolved the ability to produce a varyingly shaped outer carapace or shell in which to protect themselves. A collaborative of researchers has now identified a species of thecamoeba with ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2017
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EPFL is asking Android users who visit or live in Geneva Canton to record the sounds around them with a special app. The data will be used to create a sound map, which will provide researchers with information on the quality ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2017
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China will not allow its mammoth mobile online population to play Pokemon Go or other augmented-reality games until it completes a review of potential security risks, a Chinese digital publishing group said.
Software
Jan 12, 2017
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Where is the geographic center of a state, country or a continent?
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2017
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Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing on December 8th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, shows that local extinctions ...
Ecology
Dec 8, 2016
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When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more than 1,000 miles away attending college in Shanghai. While Hu wanted to help, there wasn't much he could do due to the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2016
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In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where ...
Archaeology
Oct 27, 2016
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