About 25 million Bangladeshis face risks of developing skin lesions and cancers due to unsafe levels of arsenic in drinking water.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 4, 2020
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Weather-related hazards have already cost the EQC $450 million in (inflation adjusted) payouts since the year 2000.
Economics & Business
Mar 4, 2020
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Identifying the difference between a native burrowing frog and an introduced cane toad is fundamental ecological knowledge. After bushfires ravaged Australia's animal and plant communities and razed millions of hectares of ...
Ecology
Mar 4, 2020
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India is bidding to boost the manufacture, use and export of pesticides. However, it must also deal with the grim fact that the annual average of fatal pesticide poisonings in the country is no fewer than 30,000 and could ...
Environment
Mar 4, 2020
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Urban trees are an effective tool for reducing land surface temperatures for entire suburbs, and even cities. But as yet we don't know much about their localized effects, particularly in the places where cooling is most important—our ...
Environment
Mar 4, 2020
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Add yet another use for cornstarch to the list, which already includes thickening soups and gravies, making adhesives, soothing skin and removing stains.
Biochemistry
Mar 4, 2020
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This titanium propellant tank, on show in the laboratory corridor of ESA's technical heart, comes from Europe's Vega launcher—one of four serving its AVUM upper stage.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2020
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Everyone knows that losing your job hurts, but the negative effects are not solely experienced by the displaced worker and his or her family. Newly published research by a Case Western Reserve University economist finds that ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2020
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Climate change is heating the oceans, which affects billions of marine microbes in ways scientists don't fully understand. In response, USC researchers have developed a model to forecast how these important organisms will ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2020
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Testing one, two and now, three.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2020
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