A new book exploring the best scientific research on preventing coral-eating Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) outbreaks, is expected to become a critical resource for informing management of these outbreaks across the Indo-Pacific.
Environment
Dec 21, 2017
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While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the colour characteristics of gold alloys are well supported by modern research, the colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys, such as tin bronzes or arsenical copper, the ...
Archaeology
Dec 21, 2017
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A research team led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at ...
General Physics
Dec 21, 2017
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Americans drink an average of 3.1 cups of coffee per day; for many people, the popular beverage is a morning necessity. When carrying a liquid, common sense says to walk slowly and refrain from overfilling the container. ...
Mathematics
Dec 21, 2017
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A group of scientists now considers a little-known dolphin that only lives along the Atlantic coasts of Western Africa to be among the continent's most endangered mammals, a list that includes widely recognized species such ...
Ecology
Dec 21, 2017
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A new type of neural network made with memristors can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans.
Computer Sciences
Dec 21, 2017
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Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to prevent plasma—the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei—from causing short circuits in machines such ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 21, 2017
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Officials say a rare white tiger has died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2017
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For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems—from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books—by using "time of flight," ...
Engineering
Dec 21, 2017
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When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Kai-Tak it measured cloud top temperatures and provided a look at the structure of the elongated storm.
Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2017
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