News tagged with resources
In Greenland, warming fuels dream of hidden wealth
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(AP) -- Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head.
New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have collected 46 new populations of switchgrass in Florida, adding valuable new accessions to the germplasm collection of this ...
New water management tool may help ease effects of drought
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall and streamflow may look like months in advance. A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative ...
Bacteria 'invest' wisely to survive uncertain times, scientists report
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Like savvy Wall Street money managers, bacteria hedge their bets to increase their chances of survival in uncertain times, strategically investing their biological resources to weather unpredictable environments.
Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
North America automobile sector bottom of 'world sustainability league'
Oct 30, 2009 |
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North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance.
Study predicts Australian seabed response to climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed.
Scientists Study Holstein Milk Production, Fertility
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have discovered why Holsteins—bred to produce more milk—are less fertile than before breeding efforts were stepped up to increase dairy production: ...
Racial Segregation Fuels Early Black-White Achievement Gap, Data Suggest
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Racial segregation of schools, and thereby segregated neighborhoods, appears to be a leading source of academic achievement disparities between young black and white children, according to research by sociologist Dennis J. ...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2009 |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...
Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.
Guide offers smart growth help for coastal and waterfront planners and developers
Sep 10, 2009 |
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NOAA, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the International City/County Management Association and Rhode Island Sea Grant, has released a guide to bring smart growth to coastal and waterfront communities.
China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Chinese official tried to calm unease about curbs on exports of rare earths used in clean energy products and superconductors, saying Thursday that sales will continue but must be limited to reduce damage to China's ...
New grant to enhance world's largest open computing network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific ...
Grid computing, the new commodity
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...
