An unknown influence is allowing giant dust particles to spread around the world and could be contributing to global warming, scientists have found.
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2018
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New Mexico contains hundreds of historic uranium mines. Although active uranium mining in the state has ceased, rates of cardiovascular and metabolic disease remain high in the population residing close to mines within the ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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A major dust storm swept through Sydney and regional New South Wales this week. Red skies over Broken Hill on Wednesday night and Sydney on Thursday resembled those seen during intense bushfire activity and the massive 2009 ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2018
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Research that models nearly 60 years of air quality in West Africa could lend insights into better forecasting a hazard that affects more than 350 million people in the region, according to an international team of researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2018
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Imagine looking under your couch and instead of finding fluffy dust bunnies, you see the dust is arranged in straight lines—you might wonder what caused this order. Scientists are experiencing that same feeling, not with ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 5, 2018
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The Taklamakan Desert, one of the major sources of Asian dust, is situated in the Tarim Basin, with the Tianshan Mountains in the north, Pamir Plateau in the west, Kunlun Mountains in the south, and Dunhuang in the east. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2018
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Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), in collaboration with international team members, has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of the recent photometric study of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann ...
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2018
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Allowing sunlight in through windows can kill bacteria that live in dust, according to a study published in the open access journal Microbiome.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2018
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New research by a team led by an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick has a way of finally telling whether newly forming planets are migrating within the disc of dust and gas that typically surrounds stars or whether ...
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2018
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Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) scientists, together with astrophysicists from all over the world, are observing as the Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner approaches the Earth. The favorable weather conditions in September ...
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2018
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