Drier conditions at the edges of forest patches slow down the decay of dead wood and significantly alter the cycling of carbon and nutrients in woodland ecosystems, according to a new study.
Environment
Aug 11, 2014
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Led by Professor Steve Redpath of the University of Aberdeen, the study involved grouse managers and conservationists as well as ecologists. Using science as a way to seek solutions to the conflict, the grouse managers and ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2014
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Facebook's fight against prosecutors over nearly 400 search warrants for users' postings and other data is drawing support from other social media companies and civil libertarians.
Internet
Aug 11, 2014
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When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently requested a figure for its annual report, to show global temperature trends over the last 10,000 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Zhengyu Liu knew that ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2014
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Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2014
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Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms. Many of them believe the app is especially invasive.
Software
Aug 11, 2014
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The journey began on August 12, 1978 from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II launch vehicle. Now after 36 years and 30 billions miles of travel around the Sun—as well as a crowd-funded reboot of the spacecraft and a foiled attempt ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2014
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Smartphones and tablets would be much more useful if they allowed us to multitask the way desktop and laptop computers do.
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 11, 2014
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Get ready for the darling of meteor showers this week—the Perseids. Who can deny their appeal? Not only is the shower rich with fiery flashes of meteoric light, but the meteors come in August when the weather's couldn't ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2014
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Researchers have tested two new methods for calculating and inserting vital missing data into wave models for future coastal and offshore engineering planning.
Engineering
Aug 11, 2014
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