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    Designing workplaces with sound disturbances in mind

    Investigators are using physics to understand how architectural aspects of workplace design change the way sound, especially music, conversation and machine noise, affect workers.

    5 Dec 2019 ⋅ 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

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    Climate change and the threat to global breadbaskets

    1 hour ago ⋅ Nature Climate Change

    The genetic signature of memory

    2 hours ago ⋅ eNeuro

    Four-hundred-eighty-million-year-old fossils reveal sea lilies’ ancient roots

    3 hours ago ⋅ Journal of Paleontology

    Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

    4 hours ago ⋅ Nature Nanotechnology

    USC scientists show evolutionary principle in microbes of offshore Southern California

    4 hours ago ⋅ Nature Microbiology

    Machine learning decreases experimental costs of drug combination screening for translational applications

    4 hours ago ⋅ Nature Machine Intelligence

    A tech jewel: Converting graphene into diamond film

    4 hours ago ⋅ Nature Nanotechnology

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    #earth

    Move over Jules Verne — scientists deploy ocean floats to peer into Earth’s interior

    An array of floating seismometers in the Pacific Ocean offer the most comprehensive view of Earth's interior.

    6 Dec 2019

    Stormquakes: Powerful storms cause seafloor tremors

    6 Dec 2019

    As farmers protest, ANU experts offer stark water warning

    6 Dec 2019

    Tipping points push Earth towards hothouse climate

    6 Dec 2019

    Atmospheric river storms create $1 billion-a-year flood damage

    4 Dec 2019

    #space

    How Enceladus got its stripes
    New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon's icy surface.

    4 hours ago

    When space travel is a blur
    Working with the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, two Quebec-based researchers are keeping an eye on astronauts’ ocular health.

    6 Dec 2019

    Hidden giant planet revealed around tiny white dwarf star
    The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphere.

    4 Dec 2019

    #technology

    A tech jewel: Converting graphene into diamond film

    Synthesis of the thinnest possible diamond-like material starting from bilayer graphene and without high pressure,

    4 hours ago

    Storing data in everyday objects

    4 hours ago

    Jelly invention can heal itself like human skin

    8 Dec 2019

    Hiring antibodies as nanotechnology builders

    3 Dec 2019

    #health

    The genetic signature of memory

    Unique memory genes are expressed in different areas of the brain.

    2 hours ago

    Machine learning decreases experimental costs of drug combination screening for translational applications

    4 hours ago

    Machine learning can help us understand conversations about death

    14 hours ago

    Many pregnancies are shorter as climate change causes more 90-degree days

    8 Dec 2019

    Nanocontainer ships titan-size gene therapies and drugs into cells

    6 Dec 2019

    #physics

    How to induce magnetism in graphene
    Graphene consists only of carbon atoms, but magnetism is a property hardly associated with carbon.

    4 hours ago

    Fish scattering sound waves has impact on aquaculture
    Acoustics affect evaluation of fish school biomass, impact aquaculture.

    6 Dec 2019

    A new view for glasses
    The physics that controls the motion of the atoms in glassy materials is incredibly complex and still not completely understood.

    6 Dec 2019

    Designing workplaces with sound disturbances in mind
    Investigators are using physics to understand how architectural aspects of workplace design change the way sound, especially music, conversation and machine noise, affect workers.

    5 Dec 2019

    #archaeology

    Four-hundred-eighty-million-year-old fossils reveal sea lilies’ ancient roots

    New fossil animal named after the goddess Athena shows how sea lilies' arms evolved.

    3 hours ago

    New early Cretaceous mammal fossils bridge a transitional gap in ear’s evolution

    Fossils of a previously unknown species of Early Cretaceous mammal have caught in the act the final steps by which mammals' multi-boned middle ears evolved, according to a new study.

    5 Dec 2019

    Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs

    5 Dec 2019

    Untangling the branches in the mammal tree of life

    4 Dec 2019

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    Climate change and the threat to global breadbaskets

    1 hour ago

    Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

    4 hours ago

    Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces

    4 hours ago

    Liquid crystal polymer learns to move and grab objects

    4 Dec 2019

    lack of tolerance, institutional confidence threaten democracies

    2 Dec 2019

    Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal–organic framework

    2 Dec 2019

    UBC ditching single-use coffee cups and plastic food ware

    29 Nov 2019