New insight into climate impacts of deforestation
Deforestation is likely to warm the climate even more than originally thought, scientists warn.
Environment
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New studies aim to boost social science methods in conservation research
Scientists have produced a series of papers designed to improve research on conservation and the environment.
Ecology
Jan 11, 2018
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Pulses of light to encrypt data and protect security of cryptocurrencies
Data travels through thousands of miles of fiber optic cables underneath the world's oceans—via pulses of light. And according to experts, the data in these cables is at great risk of being intercepted. However, a newly ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 11, 2018
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Machine learning predicts new details of geothermal heat flux beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
A paper appearing in Geophysical Research Letters uses machine learning to craft an improved model for understanding geothermal heat flux—heat emanating from the Earth's interior—below the Greenland Ice Sheet. It's a ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2018
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Developing a secure, un-hackable net
A method of securely communicating between multiple quantum devices has been developed by a UCL-led team of scientists, bringing forward the reality of a large-scale, un- hackable quantum network.
Quantum Physics
Jan 11, 2018
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Team makes short nanotube samples by hand to dramatically cut production time
The terms "handmade" and "high tech" are not commonly found in the same sentence, but they both apply to a Rice University method to quickly produce fibers from carbon nanotubes.
Nanomaterials
Jan 11, 2018
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Scientists shed light on new low-cost material for seeing in the dark
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new synthesis process for low-cost fabrication of a material previously discounted in literature for high-sensitivity infrared cameras, ...
Materials Science
Jan 11, 2018
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NASA team first to demonstrate X-ray navigation in space
In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space—a capability that could revolutionize NASA's ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches ...
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2018
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Army scientists improve human-agent teaming by making AI agents more transparent
U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists developed ways to improve collaboration between humans and artificially intelligent agents in two projects recently completed for the Autonomy Research Pilot Initiative supported by ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 11, 2018
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Rising CO2 is causing trouble in freshwaters too, study suggests
As carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere rise, more CO2 gets absorbed into seawater. As a result, the world's oceans have grown more acidic over time, causing a wide range of well-documented problems for marine animals ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2018
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