Researchers have shown that a new mid-infrared spectrometer can precisely measure the ratios of different forms of water—known as isotopologues—in atmospheric water vapor through open air in a little over 15 minutes. ...
Optics & Photonics
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Climate change might be behind an unusual disease outbreak among Antarctic fish.
Plants & Animals
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The continuing geopolitical risk and uncertainty experienced in recent years has prompted companies to change their global supply chains in profound ways, new research has found.
Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2022
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Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California's mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning gnarled limbs for the invaders that ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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Mass-spectrometry based proteomics is the big-data science of proteins that allows the monitoring of the abundance of thousands of proteins in a sample at once. Therefore, it is a particularly well-suited readout for discovering ...
Biochemistry
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This summer Maryland will impose new restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay—including the first-ever limits on how many bushels of male blue crabs watermen can haul each day—in response to a troubling decline ...
Plants & Animals
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What we thought we knew about carnivorous plants was swiftly called into question after scientists discovered a new species in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. Nepenthes pudica is what ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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Participating in citizen science is as easy as snapping a photo on your smartphone.
Ecology
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Levitated nanoparticles are promising tools for sensing ultra-weak forces of biological, chemical or mechanical origin and even for testing the foundations of quantum physics. However, such applications require precise position ...
Optics & Photonics
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A new publication and interactive map summarize the current state of knowledge on the risks posed by permafrost soils—and call for decisive action
Earth Sciences
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