It seems like a day doesn't pass without the release of yet another study that shows human actions will inevitably increase the Earth's average temperature past a tipping point that will lead to runaway climate change.
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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Parasitic infections affect hundreds of millions of people, posing a serious public health threat worldwide. For example, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease are neglected tropical diseases that are caused by the bloodborne ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 13, 2018
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Record breaking heat waves, severe hurricanes, forest fires, and floods. The weather made the headlines right across the world in 2018.
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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More rainfall extremes are observed in regions around the globe, setting both wet and dry records, a new study shows. Yet there are big differences between regions: The central and Eastern U.S., northern Europe and northern ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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It's as long as a snake, is spotted like a leopard, has two small arms with gills sticking out of its body and it lives in the swamps of Florida's panhandle. What is it?
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2018
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A research team led by The Australian National University (ANU) has invented a device that could be developed into ultra-sensitive cameras for security screening which would not require people to queue at airports.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 13, 2018
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The concept of time travel has always captured the imagination of physicists and laypersons alike. But is it really possible? Of course it is. We're doing it right now, aren't we? We are all traveling into the future one ...
General Physics
Dec 13, 2018
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There's an increasing concern among scholars that, in many areas of science, famous published results tend to be impossible to reproduce.
Computer Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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The Polish Olkusz region, which is home to one of the largest lead-zinc ore deposits in the world and a correspondingly large number of mines, holds a sad record: it is home to some of the most contaminated soils in Europe. ...
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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Increasing awareness of bioeffects and toxicity of nanomaterials interacting with cells puts in focus the mechanisms by which nanomaterials can cross lipid membranes. Apart from well-discussed energy-dependent endocytosis ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 13, 2018
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