GPS solution provides 3-minute tsunami alerts
Researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in...
Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards
A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction...
Promising doped zirconia
Materials belonging to the family of dilute magnetic oxides (DMOs) -- an oxide-based variant of the dilute magnetic semiconductors -- are good candidates for spintronics applications. This is the object...
Bach to the blues, our emotions match music to colors
Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the...
Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks?
The answer is yes, according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
H1N1 discovered in marine mammals
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the
H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the
central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according...
OHSU research team successfully converts human skin cells into embryonic stem cells
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into...
Artificial forest for solar water-splitting
In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is
now at its highest level in at least three million years, an
important advance in the race to...
How should geophysics contribute to disaster planning?
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering -- especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in the developing world...
DNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National
Laboratory have discovered that DNA "linker" strands coax
nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneous
arrangement of...
World's smallest droplets
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab.
Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
"Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings:
"carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing /
an inch of air there... /...
Invasive crazy ants are displacing fire ants in areas throughout southeastern US
Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the
southeastern United States, according to researchers at The
University of Texas at Austin. It's the latest in a history...
The genome sequence of Tibetan antelope sheds new light on high-altitude adaptation
How can the Tibetan antelope live at elevations of 4,000-5,000m on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau? Investigators rom Qinghai University, BGI, and other institutes now provide evidence of genetic factors that may...
Body mass index of low income African-Americans linked to proximity of fast food restaurants
African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant had a higher body mass index (BMI) than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The...
Scientific insurgents say 'Journal Impact Factors' distort science
An ad hoc coalition of unlikely insurgents -- scientists, journal editors and publishers, scholarly societies, and research funders across many scientific disciplines -- today posted an international declaration calling on...
New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a
device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and
Stanford University that would detect...
Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her
adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north
not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects...
Weather on the outer planets only goes so deep
What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets
Uranus and Neptune? These planets are home to extreme winds blowing
at speeds of over 1000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as...
Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results
New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices. Graphene has dazzled scientists, ever since its discovery more than a decade ago, with...
First direct proof of Hofstadter butterfly fractal observed in moiré superlattices
A team of researchers from Columbia University, City University of
New York, the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Tohoku
University and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan,...
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