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• Space Probes
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  NASA Technologist Makes Traveling to Hard-to-Reach Destinations Easier

  July 31, 2013 — Traveling to remote locations sometimes involves navigating through stop-and-go traffic, traversing long stretches of highway and maneuvering sharp turns and steep hills. The same can be said for ... > full story
• Construction
  Engineering and Construction
  Civil Engineering
  Earthquakes
  Engineering
  Sustainability
   
  

  Artificial Earthquakes Could Lead to Safer, Sturdier Buildings

  July 31, 2013 — Earthquakes never occur when you need one, so structural engineers are shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and ... > full story
• Nanotechnology
  Materials Science
  Spintronics
  Thermodynamics
  Engineering and Construction
  Nature of Water
   

  Nanomaterials: Sized-Up for Strength

  July 31, 2013 — Experiments and numerical simulations show that miniaturized ultra-small platinum cylinders weaken when their constituents are reduced in ... > full story
• Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Computer Modeling
  Mathematics
  Detectors
   

  First Experimental Signs of a New Physics Beyond the Standard Model

  July 31, 2013 — Physicists have predicted deviations in the probability of one of the B meson decays that have been detected experimentally in the LHC accelerator at CERN. Confirmation of these results would be the ... > full story
• Social Psychology
  Psychology
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Behavioral Science
  Nutrition Research
  Food
   
  

  By Tracking Maggots' Food Choices, Scientists Open Significant New Window Into Human Learning

  July 31, 2013 — The larva of the fruit fly is helping scientists understand the way humans learn information from each other. Fruit flies have long served as models for studying behavior, but new findings show their ... > full story
• Air Pollution
  Weather
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Atmosphere
  Pollution
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Catching Aerosols in a CATS Eye

  July 31, 2013 — Quick looks by a special CATS-eye attached to the International Space Station will help scientists catalog and track particles in Earth's atmosphere and act as a pathfinder for a new satellite ... > full story
• Stem Cells
  Biology
  Biotechnology
  Developmental Biology
  Molecular Biology
  Genetics
   

  Computational Biology: Cells Reprogrammed on the Computer

  July 31, 2013 — Scientists have developed a model that makes predictions from which differentiated cells -- for instance skin cells -- can be very efficiently changed into completely different cell types -- such as ... > full story
• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
  Brain Injury
  Intelligence
  Language Acquisition
   
  

  Words and Actions: What Is the Connection Between Linguistic and Motor Functions?

  July 31, 2013 — According to some neuroscientists the linguistic and the motor systems are strictly “tied up”. That is to say, for instance, that to understand the word “drinking” our brain ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Nature
  Forest
  Air Quality
  Geochemistry
   
  

  Could Planting Trees in the Desert Mitigate Climate Change?

  July 31, 2013 — As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Environmental Issues
  Astronomy
  Atmosphere
  Solar System
  Global Warming
   
  

  Planetary 'Runaway Greenhouse' More Easily Triggered, Research Shows

  July 30, 2013 — It might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable "runaway greenhouse" stage, according to new ... > full story

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