Stave churches in Norway older than previously believed
What's the real age of Norwegian stave churches?
Archaeology
Nov 6, 2019
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News tagged with preservative
Would you stand up to an oppressive regime or would you conform? Here's the science
Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to kick against the system. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2019
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Cutting-edge food science reveals how to finish your plates and reduce food waste
The team from the National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM), at the University's Holbeach Campus, is cooking up innovative ways to help consumers significantly reduce food waste, through food preservation and packaging ...
Environment
Jul 1, 2019
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Beewolves use a gas to preserve food
Scientists from the Universities of Regensburg and Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered that the eggs of the European beewolf produce nitric oxide. The gas prevents the larvae's food from getting ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2019
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Researchers outline a new pavement maintenance model that accounts for future uncertainties in cost and deterioration
In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineer's Infrastructure Report Card gave America's infrastructure an overall grade of a D+. Given that the report found the U.S. had been paying for just half of its infrastructure ...
Engineering
Apr 9, 2019
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Video: Preserving satellite data
Satellites provide vast quantities of data. While these data are processed and used by scientists and analysts to understand and monitor Earth, they are also carefully archived.
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2019
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Butterfly numbers down by two-thirds—scientists call for a change in agricultural approaches
Together with a German/Polish team, Senckenberg scientist Thomas Schmitt studied the effects of various land use models on the butterfly fauna. The researchers show that meadows adjacent to high-intensity agricultural areas ...
Ecology
Mar 19, 2019
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Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life
An international team of scientists from Leicester, Yale, Oxford and London has discovered a rare and exceptionally well-preserved tiny crustacean in 430 million-years-old rocks in Herefordshire, UK. The fossil is a new species ...
Archaeology
Nov 7, 2018
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Insurance policy could save Earth's coral reefs
A new strategy to save the world's coral reefs proposes an "insurance policy" which focuses on the reefs most likely to survive global warming.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2018
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A call to protect much more land and sea from human encroachment
A noted figure in the science world has paired with a colleague to pen an editorial for the journal Science. Jonathan Baillie, executive VP and chief scientist at the National Geographic Society and Ya-Ping Zhang with the ...
