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| 8:43a |
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| 8:43a |
Finnish electric buses serve as mobile testing platforms in the Helsinki region https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303084353.htm Finnish electric buses will soon be acting as development platforms for smart mobility services in the Helsinki region, used for boosting the creation of new user-centric solutions and product development of businesses. The Living Lab Bus joint project uses the Finnish electric buses acquired by Helsinki Region Transport as concrete development and testing platforms for businesses to validate their solutions in a real use environment. The buses can be used for testing user-oriented smart services and technologies, ranging from user interfaces and passenger services to sensors and transport operators' solutions. |
| 9:40a |
Researchers found shallow-water corals are not related to their deep-water counterparts https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303094052.htm Shallow-reef corals are more closely related to their shallow-water counterparts over a thousand miles away than they are to deep-water corals on the same reef, new research indicates. |
| 9:40a |
Food limitation linked to record California sea lion pup strandings https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303094054.htm Large numbers of California sea lion pups have flooded animal rescue centers in Southern California in the past few years. Now, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Unusual Mortality Event of California sea lions, researchers may have an explanation. |
| 9:43a |
Your modern lifestyle is made possible by creating tons of waste https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303094324.htm A professor spent a year working as a paper picker at a large mega-landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, M.I., to explore the relationship North Americans have with garbage. His two big takeaways: a) People don't think twice about what happens to the garbage they throw out and b) the American dream of two cars, a house and perfect commodities is made possible by creating tons of waste. |
| 12:07p |
Tiny island deer in Panama hunted to extinction thousands of years ago https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303120737.htm Once there was a dwarf deer on an island in the Pacific, but residents hunted it to extinction 6,000 years ago. Knowing this may help to conserve conservation of deer on a neighboring island. |
| 1:35p |
New maps reduce threats to whales, dolphins https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303133518.htm Biologists have created highly detailed maps charting the seasonal movements and population densities of 35 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises -- many of them threatened or endangered -- in US Atlantic and Gulf waters. The maps give government agencies and marine managers better tools to protect these highly mobile animals and guide ocean planning, including decisions about the siting of wind energy and oil and gas exploration along US coasts. |
| 1:36p |
Fuel or food? Study sees increasing competition for land, water resources https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303133614.htm About one-third of the world's malnourished population could be fed by using resources now used for biofuel production, new research indicates. As strategies for energy security, investment opportunities and energy policies prompt ever-growing production and consumption of biofuels like bioethanol and biodiesel, land and water that could otherwise be used for food production increasingly are used to produce crops for fuel. |
| 2:57p |
Greenland's ice is getting darker, increasing risk of melting https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145741.htm Greenland's snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite data shows. That trend is likely to continue, with the surface's reflectivity, or albedo, decreasing by as much as 10 percent by the end of the century, the study says. |
| 2:59p |
(Rain)cloud computing: Researchers work to improve how we predict climate change https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145924.htm Two scientists work on simulations that project what the climate will look like 100 years from now. Last year, they completed the highest-resolution climate forecast ever done for North America, dividing the continent into squares just over seven miles on a side -- far more detailed than the standard 30 to 60 miles. |
| 6:27p |
Cloudy problems: Today's clouds might not be the same as pre-industrial ones https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303182720.htm Clouds are notoriously hard to simulate in computer programs that model climate. A new study suggests why -- either clouds are more variable than scientists give them credit for, or those bright white clouds in the sky are much dirtier than scientists thought. |