Cosmic caffeine: Astronauts getting espresso maker
Talk about a cosmic caffeine jolt. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian espresso machine.
Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2014
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To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing CO2 emissions
The politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all, according to a comprehensive new study by University of Chicago climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert.
Environment
Jun 27, 2014
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New AAFP/ISFM guidelines for diagnosing and solving house-soiling behavior in cats
Owners of house-soiling cats frequently abandon or relinquish these pets to shelters where many are euthanized as unadoptable. Veterinarians can significantly decrease this number by preventing house soiling or effectively ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2014
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San Francisco parking app refuses shut-down order
The company behind an app that allows San Francisco drivers to get paid for the public parking spaces they exit is rejecting an order from the city attorney to stop its operations.
Business
Jun 27, 2014
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Research may yield new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant TB
Scientists in the United States and India have successfully modified the precursor to one of the drugs used to treat tuberculosis, an important first step toward new drugs that can transcend antibiotic resistance issues that ...
Biochemistry
Jun 27, 2014
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Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry
(Phys.org) —You wouldn't think that mechanical force—the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards—could process nanoparticles more subtly than the ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2014
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New report evaluates progress of comprehensive everglades restoration plan
Although planning for Everglades restoration projects has advanced considerably over the past two years, financial, procedural, and policy constraints have impeded project implementation, says a new congressionally mandated ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2014
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Climate change and the ecology of fear
Climate change is predicted to have major impacts on the many species that call our rocky shorelines home. Indeed, species living in these intertidal habitats, which spend half their day exposed to air and the other half ...
Ecology
Jun 27, 2014
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'Compressive sensing' provides new approach to measuring a quantum system
(Phys.org) —In quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says that both quantities cannot be simultaneously ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 27, 2014
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Monkeys also believe in winning streaks, study shows
Humans have a well-documented tendency to see winning and losing streaks in situations that, in fact, are random. But scientists disagree about whether the "hot-hand bias" is a cultural artifact picked up in childhood or ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2014
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