Harnessing the sun to bring fresh water to remote or disaster-struck communities
A device that takes a novel approach to removing salt from water has been developed in Bath, paving the way for small, solar-powered desalination units
A device that takes a novel approach to removing salt from water has been developed in Bath, paving the way for small, solar-powered desalination units
Materials Science
Feb 10, 2020
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The tension was high: In front of a large screen at the house near Madrid where members of the Consortium participating in the commissioning of the satellite live, as well as at the other institutes involved in CHEOPS, the ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2020
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A team of researchers at Durham University has found a way to use long-wavelength terahertz radiation to produce video with a high frame rate. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes ...
Adversarial encounters with police have a powerful negative effect on black men's mental health, as do efforts to avoid such encounters, according to a study from a team at the George Washington University.
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2020
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Policy that raises barriers to international trade does not bode well for U.S. and global energy security, according to a new research paper by experts in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute ...
Economics & Business
Feb 10, 2020
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Social clusters including mothers' groups play an important role in the life of southern Australian bottlenose dolphins, a new study shows.
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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A 40-year-old enigma about ghostly magnetic fields in interplanetary space may have finally been solved by new data from a constellation of 12 satellites in near-Earth space.
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2020
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An emerging scientific consensus is that gases—in particular carbon gases–released by volcanic eruptions millions of years ago contributed to some of Earth's greatest mass extinctions. But new research at The City College ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2020
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One of the greatest challenges facing coastal communities during extreme storms is to predict where, and when, coastal flooding might occur.
Environment
Feb 10, 2020
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Since the start of the Life Bison Project in 2016, 56 bison have been translocated from Germany and Poland—55 to reintroduction areas and one to the breeding center in Hunedoara. The bison roam freely at two main reintroduction ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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