- BBC Science/Nature
- 22/11/12 01:51
Changes to our planet's shine is just one of the stranger side effects of rising temperatures.
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Changes to our planet's shine is just one of the stranger side effects of rising temperatures.
How the BBC uncovered gas flaring in an Iraqi oil field, where locals are showing a high rate of cancer.
This week U.S. voters appear to have ended Democratic control of Congress, with Republicans now favored to win back at least the House of Representatives if not the Senate. And that could mean a bumpy ride for researchers over the next 2 years. The results of the 8 November midterm elections will likely open the way to aggressive Republican-led investigations into how the...
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed a new technique that can measure the properties of the topmost atomic layer of materials without including information from the underlying layers.
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Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have this ability. The optimal tempo for nodding along was found to depend on the time constant in the brain (the speed at which our brains can respond to something) which is similar across all species. This means that the ability of our auditory and motor systems...
Physicists have developed a new technique that can measure the properties of the topmost atomic layer of materials without including information from the underlying layers.
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Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have this ability. The optimal tempo for nodding along was found to depend on the time constant in the brain (the speed at which our brains can respond to something), which is similar across all species.
Growing up as a multiracial person in the United States, Alexis Reeves was no stranger to the impact of racial discrimination. She spent summer vacations with her father’s family in Pennsylvania, where her Black grandfather had worked as a sharecropper. Nearly everyone on that side of her family had high blood pressure, took cholesterol medication, or had experienced some form of heart...
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