Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa's most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. The attractiveness of new hydropower is decreasing fast, both due to the ...
Environment
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The heat wave in the northern Baltic Sea in recent weeks is the longest ever recorded. "The unusually high water temperatures are very worrying and can have major consequences for the marine ecosystem in the area," says Nicholas ...
Environment
Aug 24, 2023
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The first three weeks of July 2023 have been the hottest global three-week period so far. In the summer months of 2023, twice as many people in Germany were exposed to daily temperatures of 35 degrees and higher than the ...
Environment
Aug 24, 2023
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Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world's smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia will have made one smaller than a sugar cube.
General Physics
Aug 24, 2023
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SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team of students, was confirmed to have successfully reentered Earth's atmosphere in August, demonstrating a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2023
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On a suburban street with smooth lawns and trimmed bushes, Martha Chiplis' yard stands out. It's not just the wildflowers: purple wild petunia, golden lanceleaf coreopsis, hot-pink Bush's poppy mallow. It's the lemon-yellow ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2023
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The death of Tokitae the southern resident orca on Friday in Miami was a shock to those who had been working to return her to her home waters of the Pacific Northwest, after 53 years in captivity.
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2023
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Last year, Don Pratt fled from his home as a wildfire swept down the mountainside here in Washington's Cascade Range.
Environment
Aug 24, 2023
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The wideband receiving system of large radio observation equipment obtains a great number of real-time astronomical signals, and the signal preprocessing, transmission, processing and storage have become urgent issues in ...
Astronomy
Aug 24, 2023
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Parents are spending considerable amounts of energy thinking about and mitigating the risks associated with their kids using mobile phones and the internet.
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2023
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