Who will pick up the bill? Possible job cuts and revenue loss as a result of ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses.
Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...
53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured ...
New Solar Cycle Prediction
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average ...
Swedish pirates have wind in their sails for EU vote
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A Swedish party which wants an Internet filesharing free-for-all, the Pirate Party, could become one of the surprise new entrants to the European parliament this week.
Airliners could save fuel by taking a hint from birds flying in formation
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(PhysOrg.com) -- From Leonardo da Vinci to the Greek tragedy of Icarus, birds have emboldened scientific minds to master flight. Now, Stanford researchers can be added to the list of ornithologically inspired ...
Scientists set 2020 goal for improving Pacific Ocean's health
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The world faces well-known milestones for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades to reduce the dangers of climate change. Now an international consortium is doing the same to demand action against threats ...
Nature parks can save species as climate changes
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Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists.
Endless original, copyright-free music
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A group of researchers from the University of Granada has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using Artificial Intelligence techniques, the ...
Stellar Explosion Displays Massive Carbon Footprint
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While humans are still struggling to get rid of unwanted carbon it appears that the heavens are really rather good at it. New research by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has discovered that a ...
'Cold' Mars Could Have Harbored Liquid Water
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA study provides further evidence that Martian minerals dissolved in water could have kept that water from freezing, even on a cold, early Mars.
Culture, not biology, underpins math gender gap
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2009 |
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For more than a century, the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest levels, has persisted in even the loftiest circles.
When hosts go extinct, what happens to their parasites?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hands wring and teeth gnash over the loss of endangered species like the panda or the polar bear. But what happens to the parasites hosted by endangered species? And although most people would ...
Commonly used medications may produce cognitive impairment in older adults
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Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing ...
Harvard scientist says we are what we eat -- and what we cook
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"You are what you eat." Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?
