An estimated 80,000 chemical substances currently find their way into our environment through industrial and agricultural waste, as well as through food additives, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. But ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Southeast Asia has been enveloped in choking haze from agricultural fires in Indonesia in recent weeks, prompting flight cancellations and school closures, and causing diplomatic tensions to flare.
Environment
Sep 25, 2015
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Nanotechnology is taking its first steps. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a gold nanocylinder equipped with discrete DNA strands as 'feet' that can walk across ...
Nanophysics
Sep 25, 2015
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This high-resolution optical image from Sentinel-2A on 5 August 2015 shows Athens and surroundings. The various colours clearly point out different aspects of the image.
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2015
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An international team led by researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich observed massive dead galaxies in the universe 4 billion years after the Big Bang with the Subaru Telescope's Multi-Object InfraRed ...
Astronomy
Sep 25, 2015
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC).
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2015
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The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The image below—showing an area near ...
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2015
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Scientists have discovered the cells driving the annual body clock in animals which adapts their body to the changing seasons.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 25, 2015
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New Queensland research is indicating that green turtles living near urban and farming areas are absorbing possibly thousands of chemicals.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2015
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University of Arkansas researchers, in collaboration with an international team, discovered that the energy required for oxidation of black phosphorus is reduced around surface defects, opening the door for further research ...
Materials Science
Sep 25, 2015
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