Strong connection points between the stages of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) — the agency's advanced launch vehicle
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Grant funding is a key contributor to continued gender inequality within academia. Women receive smaller grants than men in biology, the physical sciences, and engineering. However, a new study published in Nature reports that, in the UK at least, social science funding doesn't show a similar gender bias when academic position is accounted for.
This study examined applications for UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Grants between 2008 and 2013. It tabulated the number of grant requests submitted by men and women, their success in earning grant awards, and the sizes of awarded grants. These data were analyzed using the UK government's information on the number of men and women in social science academic jobs in the UK.
The researchers found that, though women hold 48 percent of the academic jobs in social science, they make up just 41 percent of grant applicants, indicating a slight under-representation. The data from the Economic Social Research Council shows that 18 percent of both male and female applicants were successful in earning social science grants, indicating that men and women were equally likely to receive grant awards once you account for their lower application rate.
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Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and convert it
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The "wonder material" graphene could be used to make bulletproof armour, new research suggests.
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This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun's eastern horizon on September 16. Captured through a backyard telescope and narrowband filter in light from ionized hydrogen, the scene reveals a gigantic prominence lofted above the solar limb. Some 600,000 kilometers across, the magnetized plasma wall would dwarf worlds of the Solar System. Ruling gas giant Jupiter can only boast a diameter of 143,000 kilometers or so, while planet Earth's diameter is less than 13,000 kilometers. Known as a hedgerow prominence for its appearance, the enormous structure is far from stable though, and such large solar prominences often erupt.Here's a great wall decal featuring a beautiful image from deep space
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Capsaicin, the compound responsible for chilis' heat, is used in creams sold to relieve pain, and recent research
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