Widespread evidence of prehistoric dairying discovered along the Mediterranean coast
An inter-disciplinary team of scientists and archaeologists have discovered widespread evidence of prehistoric milk production in southern Europe.
An inter-disciplinary team of scientists and archaeologists have discovered widespread evidence of prehistoric milk production in southern Europe.
Archaeology
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated that the diets of organisms can affect the DNA sequences of their genes.
Biotechnology
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At 6000 years old, this copper amulet is the earliest lost-wax cast object known. Now, researchers have finally discovered how it was made, using a novel UV-visible photoluminescence spectral imaging approach. All the parameters ...
Materials Science
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With their research on nanomaterials for optoelectronics, scientists from Heidelberg University and the University of St Andrews (Scotland) have succeeded for the first time to demonstrate a strong interaction of light and ...
Materials Science
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Plants are constantly challenged by hungry animals and infectious microbes. For tomato plants, major enemies are nematodes of the species Meloidogyne incognita. These are little worms that first induce the roots to form galls, ...
Biotechnology
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One in two primary school principals in Ireland have dealt with homophobic bullying according to new research carried out by the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre (ABC) at Dublin City University.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2016
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What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others. Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive ...
Social Sciences
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(Phys.org)—Architect, author and urban planner William McDonough has published a Comment piece in the journal Nature promoting his belief that it is time to change the way the word "carbon" is used in science and in society ...
Researchers at UPM make available for the general public programmes to simulate the functioning and predict the energy production of photovoltaic systems.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 15, 2016
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Establishing a sustained human presence somewhere other than Earth is a vital part of humanity's future, no matter what. We know that Earth won't last forever. We don't know exactly which one of the many threats that Earth ...
Space Exploration
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