Deliberately flooding riverbeds left parched by dams has great potential to restore wetlands but may also have a significant unintended consequence: the release of greenhouse gases.
Environment
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A new online open-access database has been developed by scientists to allow the clinical responses of more than 5 million patients to all FDA-approved drugs to be used to identify unexpected clinical harm, benefits and alternative ...
Biotechnology
Jul 8, 2016
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So-called "zero-point energy" is a term familiar to some cinema lovers or series fans; in the fictional world of animated films such as "The Incredibles" or the TV series "Stargate Atlantis", it denotes a powerful and virtually ...
Nanophysics
Jul 8, 2016
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A team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major implications for industry and cancer treatment and could improve ...
Nanophysics
Jul 8, 2016
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It is a good night for the amphibian researcher with the green-tinted hair and frog and snake tattoos on her right thigh.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2016
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Four days before Christmas in 2008, a blur of brown fur scrambled along the snowy Continental Divide in Wyoming. The terrain and the conditions were brutal, food scarce. The bait a biologist placed in a wooden trap proved ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2016
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The thud on the dock got Jean Fruh's attention.
Ecology
Jul 8, 2016
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How do you convince people to buy something they'd rather not have to use?
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 8, 2016
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Since the evolution of dogs from wolves tens of thousands of years ago, they have been selectively bred for various roles as guards, hunters, workers and companions. But dogs are not the only animal humans have domesticated, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2016
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A Spanish judge has charged Volkswagen with fraud and damage to the environment over an emissions-cheating scandal which has plunged the German automaker into crisis, a statement said Friday.
Business
Jul 8, 2016
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