The waters off of New England are already warming faster than most of the world's oceans, and they are nearing the end of one of the hottest summers in their history.
Environment
Aug 30, 2018
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Thousands of World Cup stadium workers in Qatar have been handed "cooling vests" to help them cope with building tournament venues in the desert country's extreme temperatures.
Other
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A city program that recently handed out money to tech groups would hardly make an impact on most companies' budgets, with the highest award being $10,000.
Business
Aug 30, 2018
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The natural substance 3-carene is a component of turpentine oil, a waste stream of the production of cellulose from wood. Up to now, this by-product has been incinerated for the most part. Fraunhofer researchers are using ...
Materials Science
Aug 30, 2018
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Slowly flapping its orange and black wings, a monarch butterfly sips liquid from a patch of mud. Its proboscis – the mouthpart that sucks up liquids – grazes the damp soil. For years, biologists knew that butterflies ...
General Physics
Aug 30, 2018
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A team of researchers has discovered that terahertz (THz) wave irradiation activates the filamentation of actin protein. Drs. Shota Yamazaki and Masahiko Harata (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University); ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2018
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In the past, plants and animals reacted to environmental changes by adapting, migrating or going extinct. New findings point to radical changes in biodiversity due to climate change in the future, in a paper now published ...
Evolution
Aug 30, 2018
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It turns out timing really is everything, at least when it comes to the diets of lab mice that have their circadian clocks disrupted. A new study published in Cell Metabolism is reporting that limiting the times when the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2018
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In many cooperative species, the dominant breeders live longest despite the wear-and-tear of leadership and reproduction.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2018
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For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called "Love Stories," we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2018
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