Excess nitrogen is a major threat to water quality in coastal waters worldwide. Found in treated wastewater, farm and lawn fertilizers and combustion exhaust, it fuels blooms of algae that shade submerged grasses and suck ...
Environment
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If I cut myself while chopping vegetables, the cells in my skin would repair the damaged tissue in days or weeks, depending on the severity of the wound. Big or small, that cut would eventually close because that's my skin's ...
Biochemistry
Jan 20, 2020
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The Dark Energy Survey (DES) program uses the patterns of cosmic structure as seen in the spatial distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies to reveal the nature of "dark energy," the source of cosmic acceleration. ...
Astronomy
Jan 20, 2020
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ESA's technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
Space Exploration
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A UNSW study published today in Nature Communications presents an exciting step towards domain-wall nanoelectronics: a novel form of future electronics based on nano-scale conduction paths, and which could allow for extremely ...
Nanophysics
Jan 20, 2020
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A chemist from RUDN University has developed a method for analyzing the products of binding of aldehydes with the amino acid cysteine in malt and beer—these substances can adversely affect taste during storage. The technique ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 20, 2020
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Nagoya University scientists, in cooperation with Asahi Kasei Corporation, have designed a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light, and have published a paper in the journal Applied Physics Express.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 20, 2020
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An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This ...
Astronomy
Jan 20, 2020
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What the global climate emergency has in store may vary from one back yard to the next, particularly in the tropics where microclimates, geography and land-use practices shift dramatically over small areas. This has major ...
Environment
Jan 20, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. have introduced a method for enhancing the power of existing algorithms to forecast the future of unknown time series. By combining the predictions ...
Mathematics
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