Cookstoves are a central part of millions of homes throughout Asia: families often use readily available and cheap biofuels—such as crop chaff or dung—to prepare the food needed to survive.
Environment
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While cybersecurity should be a year-round concern for small business owners, income tax filing season can bring some particular risks, according to the IRS.
Security
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This is the story of a spider, small but bold.
Plants & Animals
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Transition-metal catalysts, such as nickel and cobalt, are widely used in industry to produce hydrogen and other useful compounds from natural gas. Researchers achieve this transformation through steam reforming, which is ...
Materials Science
Jan 2, 2018
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Using two types of "designer" quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure. It's all made possible by ...
Nanophysics
Jan 2, 2018
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If you want to buy good wine, Elizabeth Wolkovich says stop looking at labels and listen to your taste buds.
Biotechnology
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Researchers have applied Nobel prize-winning microscope technology to uncover an ion channel structure that could lead to new treatments for kidney stones. In a recent study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 2, 2018
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One of the most ambitious programmes to provide lasting improvements in nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa begins today when a diverse multinational team of experts from agriculture to ethics start looking for ways to end dietary ...
Environment
Jan 2, 2018
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Researchers at Duke University have discovered a way to enhance the effectiveness and safety of sonogenetics or ultrasonic modulation, emerging techniques that use sound waves to control the behavior of individual neurons ...
Biotechnology
Jan 2, 2018
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The International Space Station isn't the only spacecraft orbiting the Earth. In fact, it is accompanied by the Hubble Space Telescope, satellites within the Earth Observing System, and more than 1,000 other operational spacecraft ...
Space Exploration
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