Professor urges scientists to speak up about climate change
The facts, unfortunately, don't speak for themselves.
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Image: Alert, Canada
This Sentinel-1 radar composite image takes us to the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island (lower-left), where the Nares Strait opens up into the Lincoln Sea in the Canadian Arctic.
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2017
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Flying foxes have been on the decline for decades, and there's no hope in sight
Three decades after being recognized as a group in need of conservation efforts, large fruit-eating bats still face an increasingly uncertain future on tropical islands as populations dwindle and threats close in, according ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2017
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New therapeutic strategy against sleeping sickness
A newly developed small molecule selectively kills the pathogen causing sleeping sickness and Chagas disease. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, along with colleagues from the Technical University of Munich and ...
Biochemistry
Mar 31, 2017
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Climate seesaw at the end of the last glacial phase
The climate of the Earth follows a complex interplay of cause-and-effect chains. A change in precipitation at one location may be caused by changes on the other side of the planet. A better understanding of these "teleconnections"—the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2017
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Species on the move having a big impact
Changes in the distribution of land, marine and freshwater species as a result of climate change are affecting human wellbeing around the world, posing new health risks, economics threats and conflicts over resources.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2017
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Super-strong, stretchy silver
Try bending your iPhone in half. Or roll up your tablet like a scroll. Or wrap a touchscreen TV around a pole. Didn't work out so well, did it? That's because the ceramic material used to make many of today's touchscreens ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2017
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Four unknown objects being investigated in Planet 9 search
Astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU) are investigating four unknown objects that could be candidates for a new planet in our Solar System, following the launch of their planetary search on the BBC's Stargazing ...
Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2017
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NASA tests robotic ice tools
Want to go ice fishing on Jupiter's moon Europa? There's no promising you'll catch anything, but a new set of robotic prototypes could help.
Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2017
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Fish also need friends
According to a new study led by Rui Oliveira, researcher at ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, and Fundação Champalimaud, zebrafish need social support to overcome adverse circumstances and ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2017
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