To monitor heart rhythms and muscle function, doctors often attach electrodes to a patient's skin, detecting the electrical signals that lie beneath. These impulses are vital to the early diagnosis and treatment of many disorders, ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 4, 2022
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Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a new paper published the week of Aug. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian scientists and colleagues looked ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2022
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Extremely hot weather is becoming more common. The top ten warmest years since 1884 all happened in the last two decades. While experts can help people take adequate precautions to beat the heat, who's looking out for the ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2022
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How did life begin? The answer may lie in the hot springs of WA's arid northwest.
Astrobiology
Jun 15, 2022
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The production of chemical substances normally requires environmentally harmful solvents. After the research group of Miriam Unterlass, professor of solid state chemistry at the University of Konstanz, produced organic substances ...
Materials Science
Jun 13, 2022
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Plastics surround us, whether it's the grocery bags we use at the supermarket or household items such as shampoo and detergent bottles. Plastics don't exist only as large objects, but also as microscopic particles that are ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2022
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Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very unlike the ones in our own Solar System. A large number of these "exoplanets" are large, gaseous planets ...
Astronomy
Feb 22, 2022
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It's not a mirage, our summers are getting hotter on average and we are experiencing more extremely hot days. News from NIWA that 2021 was New Zealand's hottest year on record fits with the long term trend.
Environment
Jan 11, 2022
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If you've eaten sushi anywhere in the U.S., chances are the rice came from California's Sacramento Valley. Fritz Durst, a sixth-generation farmer, has grown the grain and other crops there for more than four decades. But ...
Environment
Aug 16, 2021
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Using the SPIRou spectropolarimeter on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, a team led by Stefan Pelletier, a PhD student at Université de Montréal's Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), studied the atmosphere ...
Astronomy
Jul 28, 2021
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