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A piezoelectric energy harvester in a novel wristwatch-like device. Credit: Penn State Aug. 31, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm w ...
Credit: University of New South Wales Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study has revealed the science behind sexy selfies, showing that women tend to sexualize themselves in environments with greate ...
Tiger on a trap camera. Credit: Matt Struebig Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A geographic profiling tool used to catch serial criminals could help reduce the casualties of human-tiger conflict, accordin ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Ahead of a full ban, fishing increased 130 percent in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the South Pacific, setting back projected efforts to ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity are making staple crops such as rice and wheat less nutritious and could result in 175 ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 20, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology resear ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 20, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- It's not uncommon to hear someone espouse the idea that "everything happens for a reason" or that something that happened was "meant to be." ...
A selection of video title slides from the new Ethics Unwrapped series "Scandals Unwrapped." Credit: the McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin Aug. 13, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Et ...
Illustration of a three-dimensional hypersurface. Credit: Wang and Braunstein. Published in Nature Communications Aug. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new paper undermines a key assumption of the theory of ...
Three main trends in creative systems: creativity support tools, fully autonomous systems and co-creative systems. Credit: Karimi et al. Aug. 8, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Computer programs assist humans i ...
July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...