Your food, your vacation, your carefully curated life—all posted for your friends in a filtered image. Some may scoff at adolescents' use of social media networks as they pine for likes. Is this just frivolous behavior? ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2017
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Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin have found that high levels of methane in well water from two counties near Fort Worth are probably from shallow natural gas deposits, not natural gas leaks caused by hydraulic ...
Environment
Mar 8, 2017
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With an average life span of 30-40 years, the cement around geothermal production wells eventually cracks over time. Because wells with cracked cement are vulnerable to leakage, reduced strength, and corrosion, it's important ...
Engineering
Feb 14, 2017
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Invisible to the human eye, terahertz electromagnetic waves can "see through" everything from fog and clouds to wood and masonry—an attribute that holds great promise for astrophysics research, detecting concealed explosives ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 15, 2016
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The UPV/EHUs Qualiker research group has proposed a new combination of variables to study the psychological well-being of adolescent students. After testing a methodology that studies group and individual variables together ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2016
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Oil and gas development in the Western U.S. could continue to cause sage grouse numbers to decline despite limits on drilling meant to protect the struggling bird species, according to scientists.
Ecology
Oct 19, 2016
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Last year, dozens of major oil companies and oil-producing nations agreed to end the routine flaring of natural gas from wells by 2030. This burning off of uncaptured methane in addition to simply letting it escape into the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 17, 2016
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Kansas and Oklahoma, which acknowledge that humans are causing earthquakes, have shown they can stop them.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2016
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Converting light from one wavelength (or "color") to a shorter wavelength, a process needed for efficient communication and advanced manufacturing, is typically inefficient. To tackle that inefficiency, a team built a specialized, ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 27, 2016
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Computers use switches to perform calculations. A complex film with "quantum wells"—regions that allow electron motion in only two dimensions—can be used to make efficient switches for high-speed computers. For the first ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jul 27, 2016
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