Though a mature technology, renewable thermals occupy a small niche in Connecticut—and in the U.S. at large. A new Yale-led study analyzes the market potential of this technology across the state and provides key insights ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2017
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Rice University scientists have created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture oxygen-evolution catalyst that pairs well with semiconductors for solar water splitting, the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy in the ...
Nanophysics
Mar 23, 2017
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The business of live sports, seen as perhaps the last great firewall for traditional US broadcasters, is facing deepening challenges in the era of mobile and live streaming options.
Internet
Mar 23, 2017
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Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses.
Computer Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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Natural gas producers want to draw all the methane they can from a well while sequestering as much carbon dioxide as possible, and could use filters that optimize either carbon capture or methane flow. No single filter will ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2017
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It may have replaced the dwindling eastern wolf atop many food chains, but the eastern coyote lacks the chops to become the big-game hunter of an ecosystem, new research led by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ecologist shows.
Ecology
Mar 23, 2017
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Shortly after Tropical Cyclone Caleb formed east of Cocos Island, NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead gathering visible and infrared data on the twelfth tropical cyclone of the Southern ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM constellation of satellites provide data on precipitation rates and totals. Recently the GPM core observatory measured the heavy rainfall that caused extensive flooding ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.
Condensed Matter
Mar 23, 2017
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It is well known that as plants grow, their stems and shoots respond to outside signals like light and gravity. But if plants all have similar stimuli, why are there so many different plant shapes? Why does a weeping willow ...
Mathematics
Mar 23, 2017
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