Aug. 2017: Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cooking up biofuel
Plasma Physics
Aug 1, 2017
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Big data points humanity to new minerals, new deposits (Update)
Applying big data analysis to mineralogy offers a way to predict minerals missing from those known to science, where to find them, and where to find new deposits of valuable minerals such as gold and copper, according to ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2017
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Spanish court backs extradition of Russian programmer to US
Spain's National Court has recommended the extradition to the United States of a Russian computer programmer accused by U.S. prosecutors of developing malicious software that stole information from financial institutions ...
Security
Aug 1, 2017
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Earth's 2017 resource 'budget' spent by August 2: report
Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesday, a report said.
Environment
Aug 1, 2017
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Gold replica of US space module pinched from Ohio museum
A gold replica of a lunar landing module gifted to US astronaut Neil Armstrong by French jewlers has been pilfered from an Ohio museum, with security footage offering little help to police.
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2017
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Panda at French zoo expecting... twins!
French zoo officials were doubly delighted on Tuesday on learning that their pregnant panda is expecting not one but two cubs at the weekend.
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2017
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Deadly fungus affecting hibernating bats could spread during summer
The cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd) that causes white-nose syndrome , a disease that has killed millions of North American bats during hibernation, could also spread in summer months. Bats and humans ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2017
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Technique enables printable and rewritable color images
A chemical process that allows color images to be printed on specially coated paper and then erased so that different images can be printed on the same paper has been developed by researchers at Rice, Yonsei and Korea universities.
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2017
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NASA catches formation of Tropical Depression 13W
The thirteenth tropical cyclone of the northwestern Pacific Ocean typhoon season has formed and NASA's Terra satellite obtained a visible-light image of the storm revealing that it's already battling wind shear.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2017
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NASA tracks Tropical Depression Emily across Florida into Atlantic
Just after Tropical Storm Emily made landfall in west central Florida, NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. As Emily was weakening and tracking east across the Sunshine State, NASA used data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2017
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