Dirty laundry in space? NASA, Tide tackle cleaning challenge
How do astronauts do laundry in space? They don't.
Space Exploration
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Moscow battered by historic June heat wave
Moscow has been hit by a historic heat wave this week, with temperatures reaching a 120-year record due to the effects of climate change, Russia's weather service said Tuesday.
Environment
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'Finding the truth': A biologist's quest for scientific integrity
Since she stumbled upon her own work published under someone else's name, Elisabeth Bik has scanned thousands of scientific papers for errors and fraud, publicly questioning what she considers red flags—and occasionally ...
Other
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Australia hits out at threatened UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef
Australia said Tuesday it will strongly oppose a UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as being "in danger" over deterioration caused by climate change.
Ecology
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Choosy female fruit flies reproduce anyway
Choosiness will lead to the best offspring. Being too choosy, however, could in the end result in no offspring at all. Female fruit flies have a solution to this dilemma.
Plants & Animals
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Growing food with air and solar power: More efficient than planting crops
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences has found ...
Subduction initiation may depend on a tectonic plate's history
Subduction zones are cornerstone components of plate tectonics, with one plate sliding beneath another back into Earth's mantle. But the very beginning of this process—subduction initiation—remains somewhat mysterious ...
Earth Sciences
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Researchers prepare radiation resistance of Er-doped silica glass and optical fiber
Rare earth-doped active fibers are crucial in space-based applications, such as space laser communication, laser radar, and space waste disposal. However, the space radiation environment can lead to a sharp increase in the ...
Optics & Photonics
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Worrying insights into the chemicals in plastics
Plastic is practical, cheap and incredibly popular. Every year, more than 350 million tons are produced worldwide. These plastics contain a huge variety of chemicals that may be released during their lifecycles—including ...
Environment
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Boost for mouse genetic analysis
To understand what role an individual gene plays, biologists have, for 100 years, been using a trick of nature: While in principle, the genome in all cells of an organism is the same, mutations arise in individual cells. ...
Biotechnology
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