It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right out of the driest of desert air.
Materials Science
Mar 22, 2018
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Populations of European bumblebees are projected to fall drastically in the coming decades due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers warned on Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2023
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Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada's high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.
Environment
May 23, 2019
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Man-made pollution in eastern China's cities worsens when less dust blows in from the Gobi Desert, according to a new study published May 11 in Nature Communications.
Environment
May 11, 2017
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Insects are full of marvels - and this is certainly the case with a beetle from the Tenebrionind family, found in the extreme conditions of the Namib desert.
General Physics
Dec 8, 2014
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Putting a climate model through some dusty drills, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found how well it depicts the climate effects of particle size. Comparing three techniques to represent the particles' ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2014
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Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely.
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.
Engineering
Aug 7, 2012
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(AP) -- If the weather cooperates, Atlantis will close out the space shuttle era with wheels down in Florida. Shuttle homecomings didn't always end this way.
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2011
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A lot of large particles of dust and pollen in the atmosphere may make your nose twitch, but they can lead directly to greater precipitation in clouds, Colorado State University atmospheric scientists have discovered for ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2010
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