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Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric MaterialsA research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ... |
Window of opportunity for restoring oaks small, new study findsCommunities of Oregon white oak were once widespread in the Pacific Northwest’s western lowlands, but, today, they are in decline. Fire suppression, conifer and invasive plant encroachment, and land use change have resulted ... |
Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good lifeCSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good. |
Adding ultrasound screening to mammography brings benefits, risksAdding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography reveals more breast cancers than mammography alone, according to results of a major new clinical trial. The trial, however, also found that adding an ultrasound ... |
 Leveling the gaming fieldA new computer game developed by MIT and Singaporean students makes it possible for visually impaired people to play the game on a level field with their sighted friends. |
 Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical ResponseScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ... |
 Designing bug perception into robotsInsects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools.
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Memory lane: Older persons with more schooling spend fewer years with cognitive lossThose with at least a high school education spend more of their older years without cognitive loss – including the effects of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia -- but die sooner after the loss becomes apparent, reveals ... |
 Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic callsMost female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent ... |
 Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors. |
 A crash course in true political science(AP) -- Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task - getting ... |
Federal polar bear research critically flawed, says new studyResearch done by the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine if global warming threatens the polar bear population is so flawed that it cannot be used to justify listing the polar bear as an endangered species, according ... |
St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearingSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will ... |
 A Super Solar FlareAt 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington—widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers—was in his well-appointed private observatory. ... |
 System uses sound to find whales, avoid ship strikes(AP) -- A spotter bangs three times on the boat's cabin roof, signaling the captain to cut the throttle - now. In the foggy gray of Cape Cod Bay, the reason for the abrupt stop soon becomes apparent: The ... |
