Research from the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has found that elephant ivory is still being sold on the online marketplace eBay, despite its 10-year-old policy banning the trade ...
Plants & Animals
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One invasive beetle is ready to devour just about every ash tree left in Minnesota's woods. A caterpillar has killed more than 200,000 acres worth of balsam fir trees in just the last year. Another beetle, a native in the ...
Ecology
Jan 4, 2021
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a catalyst that is effective in negligible amounts. Due to its form and durability, the catalyst lasts much longer in reactions, saving a great deal ...
Materials Science
Jan 4, 2021
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To make kefir, it takes a team. A team of microbes.
Evolution
Jan 4, 2021
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The odd, wavy pattern that results from viewing certain phone or computer screens through polarized glasses has led researchers to take a step toward thinner, lighter-weight lenses. Called moiré, the pattern is made by laying ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 4, 2021
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Researchers demonstrate a new technique for suppressing back reflections of light—better signal quality for sensing and information technology.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 4, 2021
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Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to detect decreases in forest cover in the tropics.
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2021
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Scientists have thought that global warming will increase the availability of surface water—freshwater resources generated by precipitation minus evapotranspiration—in wet regions, and decrease water availability in dry ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2021
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Supersolids are materials that are fluid and solid at the same time. Physicists from Innsbruck and Geneva have for the first time investigated what happens when such a state is brought out of balance. They discovered a soft ...
General Physics
Jan 4, 2021
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Spintronics refers to a suite of physical systems which may one day replace many electronic systems. To realize this generational leap, material components that confine electrons in one dimension are highly sought after. ...
Nanophysics
Jan 4, 2021
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