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Earth Sciences Mar 24, 2022

Interview: Intense press coverage prompts new expeditions to Dyatlov Pass

The Dyatlov Pass Incident is a mystery that still reverberates through the scientific community and divides public opinion. In January 1959, a ten-member group consisting mostly of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, ...

Economics & Business Mar 21, 2022

Fewer Americans are hunting, and that raises hard questions about funding conservation through gun sales

Gun and ammunition sales in the U.S. have skyrocketed in recent years. And although it may come as a surprise, this trend has supported conservation activities.

Environment Feb 21, 2022

Mount Etna roars again, sends up towering volcanic ash cloud

Mount Etna has roared back to spectacular action after a few months of relative quiet, sending up a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) high volcanic ash cloud over eastern Sicily.

Materials Science Feb 16, 2022

Sustainable chemistry based on wood

Some hikers carry a small solar power generator with them, a foil attached to their backpack that converts sunlight into electricity. This allows them to charge their devices while on the move. Flexible, thin and lightweight ...

Space Exploration Jan 21, 2022

NASA emergency beacons save 330 lives in 2021

In 2021, NASA technology saved 330 lives in the U.S. network region of the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort, Cospas-Sarsat. NASA has lent technical expertise to the Cospas-Sarsat program since its founding, ...

Ecology Jan 16, 2022

Swine fever in wild boars worries Italy's pork industry

The discovery of African swine fever in northern Italy has Italian pork producers fearing significant economic damage to a major agricultural export and has forced curtailing of the official seasons to hunt for game and to ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 14, 2022

Light could boost performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries and other devices

Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time that light can be used to significantly improve the performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries and other devices that are based on the ...

Ecology Nov 19, 2021

Algae blooms, which can threaten drinking water and human health, pop up regularly and may increase

Barges carrying mounds of coal toward St. Louis passed by Starved Rock at a snail's pace, inching past yellow-orange trees and sandstone canyons. A bald eagle hovered above a path leading hikers toward Lover's Leap. Near ...

Space Exploration Nov 9, 2021

NASA tests beacon for safe recovery of astronauts on Artemis missions

NASA and the U.S. Navy are wrapping up the ninth in a series of tests at sea. They're verifying and validating procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific ...

Environment Oct 20, 2021

Volcano in southern Japan erupts with massive smoke column

A volcano in southern Japan erupted Wednesday with a massive column of gray smoke billowing into the sky.

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