Down to $6 Per Hour, Gender Pay Gap Shrinks Faster Than Expected
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Comments (0)Americans Eat Nearly a Ton of Food Per Year (infographic)
Food consumption has been on the rise in recent decades, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Trillion-frame-per-second video: Researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow
MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to ...
186 gigabits per second: High-energy physicists set record for network data transfer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. At the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November, the international team transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second ...
Two Species Per Day Discovered In Mekong Jungle
The diversity of life in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, which includes portions of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, is so astonishing that a new species is found every two days, according to various media reports.Two-hundred and eight new species were discovered during the last year ...
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Heart transplant surgery safe and effective: Canadian retrospective spanning three decades finds survival rates now close to 90 per cent
Researchers in Canada have revealed results from 25 years of follow-up on a total of 461 transplant patients. Mean age at transplant was 49, plus or minus 13 years. Patients were followed and managed according to guidelines in effect at the time. Researchers found that survival rates have improved by ...
US residents say Hawaii’s coral reef ecosystems worth $33.57 billion per year
The American people assign an estimated total economic value of $33.57 billion for the coral reefs of the main Hawaiian Islands. The findings came from survey of 3,100 households -- from all US residents, not just Hawaii or coastal residents. Survey allowed the public to express its preferences and values ...
Levels Of Suicidal Thoughts, Plans and Attempts Per State
Find your state on this rundown of the study's findings (in alphabetical order), released today (Oct. 20):
Pair claim they can make ammonia to fuel cars for just 20 cents per liter
(PhysOrg.com) -- John Fleming of SilverEagles Energy and Tim Maxwell from Texas Tech University, say they have developed a way to make ammonia that is cheap enough so that it could be used as fuel for cars. If their claims turn out to be true, many consumers might consider switching ...
European research funding rises 9 per cent
New materials, health and energy are some of the biggest beneficiaries in the latest European funding round
Copper reduces infection risk by more than 40 per cent, experts say
Medical researchers have presented research into the mechanism by which copper exerts its antimicrobial effect on antibiotic-resistant organisms.
26 terabits per second: World record in ultra-rapid data transmission
German scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting them over a distance of 50 km, and decoding them successfully. This is the largest data volume ever transported on a laser beam. The ...