Clearing forests: No simple solution to California wildfires
With nearly 40 million people living in California and development spreading into once-wild regions, some of the state's best tools toward preventing wildfires can't be widely used.
With nearly 40 million people living in California and development spreading into once-wild regions, some of the state's best tools toward preventing wildfires can't be widely used.
Environment
Apr 11, 2019
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Washington State University researchers have found a way to make food taste salty but with less of the sodium chloride tied to poor health.
Other
Apr 11, 2019
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In 1942, Ludwig Prandtl—considered the father of modern aerodynamics—published "Führer durch die Strömungslehre," the first book of its time on fluid mechanics and translated to English from the German language in 1952 ...
General Physics
Apr 11, 2019
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Graphene can come from graphite. But borophene? There's no such thing as borite.
Nanomaterials
Apr 11, 2019
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Michigan high school students are going above and beyond the required math curriculum, likely an effect of the state's graduation requirements, finds new research from Michigan State University.
Education
Apr 11, 2019
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Every renter has tried to do the math to figure out if it makes more sense to buy a home, rather than continue to lease.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2019
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People are increasingly turning to commercial settings as outlets for their emotions, confronting problems, grief and feelings.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2019
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Known to science since 1857, a common species of true frog (a "true frog" is one assigned to the family Ranidae), found from north-eastern Honduras, through Nicaragua and Costa Rica to central Panama, turns out to have been ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2019
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How wildlife will react to climate change is an open question, but one of the first studies to compare the responses of tropical mammals to warmer habitats suggests the answer won't be as simple as "move to a cooler place."
Ecology
Apr 11, 2019
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A University of Arkansas researcher is part of a team of astronomers who have identified an outburst of X-ray emission from a galaxy approximately 6.5 billion light years away, which is consistent with the merger of two neutron ...
Astronomy
Apr 11, 2019
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