The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespread construction of new water treatment, wastewater and flood control systems reflecting ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2022
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A French-Japanese research collaboration has fabricated metal nanocomposite coatings that improve the insulating properties of window glasses. The new coating prevents a significant portion of near-infrared (NIR) and ultraviolet ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 31, 2022
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NASA's most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on a mission to take humans back to the Moon, but fueling the spacecraft gave the US space agency trouble hours before the launch.
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2022
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Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are each hazardous to our health, but recent studies suggest that when we're exposed to both at the same time, the impact can be greater than their combined individual effects. Now, UCLA researchers ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2022
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Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA's most powerful rocket ever.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2022
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In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, Valdosta State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the National Radio Astronomy ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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As much of Europe bakes in a third heatwave since June, fears are growing that extreme drought driven by climate change in the continent's breadbasket nations will dent stable crop yields and deepen the cost-of-living crisis.
Environment
Aug 3, 2022
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British authorities issued their first ever "red" warning for extreme heat early next week, declaring a national emergency as forecasters predict record temperatures that will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness ...
Environment
Jul 15, 2022
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Within the solar system, most of our astrobiological research is aimed at Mars, which is considered to be the next-most habitable body beyond Earth. However, future efforts are aimed at exploring icy satellites in the outer ...
Astrobiology
Jul 1, 2022
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Even if society is able to slow all greenhouse gas emissions and get to "net zero" by mid-century as targeted by nations of the world in the UN Paris Agreement, there is a lag built into the climate system primarily as a ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 9, 2022
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