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  Botany Experiment Will Try out Zero Gravity Aboard Space Station

  December 18, 2012 — Gravity: It’s the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  pH Measurements: How to See the Real Face of Electrochemistry and Corrosion?

  December 18, 2012 — For several decades antimony electrodes have been used to measure the acidity/basicity -- and so to determine the pH value. Unfortunately, they allow for measuring pH changes of solutions only at a ... > full story
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  Consequences of Abandoning Alpine Meadows: Scrubs Now Encroaching on Land That Had Been Cultivated for Centuries

  December 18, 2012 — Agriculture is increasingly vanishing from the Alps. Land that was cultivated for centuries is now being abandoned and scrubs are encroaching on it. This affects not only the landscape, but also the ... > full story
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  Density of Invasive Reed, Phragmites Australis, Mapped in Great Lakes

  December 17, 2012 — Scientists have used satellite technologies to map the location and density of Phragmites australis, an invasive species of reed, in the coastal wetlands of all five Great ... > full story
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  Farm Soil Determines Environmental Fate of Phosphorus

  December 17, 2012 — Brazil's soybean yields have become competitive with those of the United States and Argentina, but the soil demands a lot of phosphorus, which is not renewable. In the United States, meanwhile, ... > full story
• Geography
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  Environmental Threat Map Highlights Great Lakes Restoration Challenges

  December 17, 2012 — A comprehensive map three years in the making is telling the story of humans’ impact on the Great Lakes, identifying how “environmental stressors” stretching from Minnesota to ... > full story
• Breast Cancer
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  Improving the Development of New Cancer Models Using an Advanced Biomedical Imaging Method

  December 17, 2012 — Scientists have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging method can non-invasively evaluate the cellular proliferation of tumor models of breast cancer. This quantitative imaging ... > full story
• Nuclear Energy
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  Investigating Ocean Currents Using Uranium-236 from the 1960s

  December 17, 2012 — New research has identified the bomb-pulse of uranium-236 in corals from the Caribbean Sea for the first time. 236U was distributed world-wide in the period of atmospheric nuclear testing in the ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  Noise Power on Adhesion: New Model May Help Robotic Fingers, Made of a Soft Surface, Manipulate Small Objects

  December 17, 2012 — A new model could ultimately help robotic fingers, made of a soft surface, manipulate small objects. Imagine a solid ball rolling down a slightly inclined ramp. Scientists have studied the effect of ... > full story
• Robotics
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  'Liquid That Thinks:' Swarm of Ping-Pong-Ball-Sized Robots Created

  December 14, 2012 — If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them. A research team has developed a basic robotic building block, which they hope to ... > full story

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