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Your Magneto-Jet Awaits, Sir. Powerful magnetic fields in Nature

02/12/2015

Simulation shows key to building powerful magnetic fields ...

Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis

01/12/2015

Study shows white matter damage caused by 'skunk-like' cannabis ...

Higher Crop Yields: The Famine-Busting Breakthrough You’ve Never Heard Of

19/11/2015

High yield crops a step closer in light of photosynthesis discovery ...

Looking for Habitable Exoplanets? Search for the Pale Orange Dot

14/11/2015

Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space ...

Rain Getting You Down? On Mars, it’s Acid Fog

06/11/2015

While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog....

new earths by NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) 620

But Will There Be Fjords? The New Earths Yet to be Built

22/10/2015

Most earth-like worlds have yet to be born, according to theoretical study ...

Getting an Edge in Business – The Way of the Bee

17/10/2015

Buzzing bees can't resist caffeinated nectar....

Forest Vines Have Carbon Capture All Tied Up

13/10/2015

Smithsonian scientists say vines strangle carbon storage in tropical forests ...

How do Physicists Play Quantum Billiards?

07/10/2015

How to tune a laser to make atoms attract or repel each other in an exotic state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate...

So Long, Smog! Small Scale Nuclear Fusion Advance

29/09/2015

Small-scale nuclear fusion may be a new energy source ...

Power Up! Green Storage for Green Energy

26/09/2015

A rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels...

How to Attract the Opposite Sex, a Scientific Approach

18/09/2015

Chapman University publishes research on attractiveness and mating ...

Dither, and the Cat Dies. Quantum Probability and Irrational Decisions

16/09/2015

You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic ...

They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

09/09/2015

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy

07/09/2015

Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology ...

Energy for You, Energy for Your Car : Storing Fuel in Coffee Grounds

06/09/2015

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane...

Staging a Skyfall : How to Bring Down a Satellite

02/09/2015

Controlled Skyfall - How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement ...

Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

31/08/2015

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

Some Ecological GOOD News. Reclaiming Oil-Damaged Soil

22/08/2015

We proved we can remove all the bad actors and all the contaminants and at the same time have a final product with agricultural value...

The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

17/08/2015

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

Evolution’s Double Throw : Beer Yeast

16/08/2015

The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice -- and both times without human help...

Lose Weight Fast, Barbecue Yourself Slim

07/08/2015

The metabolism of the fat samples, the makeup of the fat cells and the patients' resting metabolic rates were measured....

One Lump or Two? How Sugar Makes Caffeine Clump

04/08/2015

New insights into the way in which caffeine, sugar and water interact at the molecular level to affect the taste of hot beverages....

Phobic? Learn Something New For Fear Management

24/07/2015

It is not only important to break the links between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety for further fear management....

Wood Stress and Woodquakes. How Hard is Your Wood?

23/07/2015

The sound we hear when we listen to wood is analogous to seismic waves released by earthquakes. Examining wood stress, fundamentally, at last....

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Pirates (near) the Caribbean? Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered

22/07/2015

Our accidental find illustrates the rewards -- and the challenge and uncertainty -- of working in the deep ocean," ...

goby by Carole Baldwin and Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Institution

Meet the Deepwater Goby Fish that Science Missed

22/07/2015

By thoroughly investigating reef ecosystems that lie just below shallow coral reefs, describing new species, documenting depth ranges of new and known species, we are providing the baseline...