July ranks 2nd for heat globally, hottest recorded on land
Earth yet again sizzled with unprecedented heat last month.
Environment
Aug 17, 2017
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Team images tiny quasicrystals as they form
When Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman first saw a quasicrystal through his microscope in 1982, he reportedly thought to himself, "Eyn chaya kazo"—Hebrew for, "There can be no such creature."
Condensed Matter
Aug 17, 2017
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Potato waste processing may be the road to enhanced food waste conversion
With more than two dozen companies in Pennsylvania manufacturing potato chips, it is no wonder that researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a novel approach to more efficiently convert ...
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2017
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NASA sees Tropical Depression 9 form east of Lesser Antilles
NOAA's GOES-East Satellite spotted Tropical Depression 9 organizing east of the Lesser Antilles.
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2017
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Satellites show Hurricane Gert being affected by wind shear
NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided an infrared and visible look at Atlantic Hurricane Gert. Both images showed the storm was being affected by wind shear and had become elongated.
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2017
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Discovery could lead to new catalyst design to reduce nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust
Researchers have discovered a new reaction mechanism that could be used to improve catalyst designs for pollution control systems to further reduce emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust.
Materials Science
Aug 17, 2017
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The laws of attraction: Pheromones don't lie, fruit fly research suggests
Life as a fruit fly seems pretty simple: Hatch, grow, eat some fruit, find a mate, produce hundreds of tiny offspring and die—all in a month or so.
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2017
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Worm atlas profiles gene readouts in every cell type in the animal
The roundworm stars in the first-ever compilation of gene readouts in every kind of cell in an animal. The readouts, which were taken at a particular stage in the worm's life, reveal, for example, which genes are turned on ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2017
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Bacteria stab amoebae with micro-daggers
Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia and then absorb and digest them.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2017
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Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime routes between the 7th and 8th centuries AD. In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, ...
Archaeology
Aug 17, 2017
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