On April 15, 2019, the world watched helplessly as black and yellow smoke billowed from the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The fire started just below the cathedral's roof and spire, which were covered in 460 tons of lead—a ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2020
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For the first time in nearly 50 years, California condors have been spotted at Sequoia National Park, wildlife officials announced.
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2020
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Over the past 20 years, many areas within New York City have transitioned from industrial and manufacturing zones to residential neighborhoods. This brings families with young children to areas with a legacy of historic lead ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2020
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Researchers from Bochum and Münster have developed a new method to determine the structures of all RNA molecules in a bacterial cell at once. In the past, this had to be done individually for each molecule. Besides their ...
Biotechnology
Jun 17, 2020
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It is not uncommon to find aluminum in municipal water systems. It's part of a treatment chemical used in some water treatment processes. Recently, however, it has been discovered in lead scale, deposits that form on lead ...
Environment
May 19, 2020
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The crystal structure at the surface of semiconductor materials can make them behave like metals and even like superconductors, a joint Swansea/Rostock research team has shown. The discovery potentially opens the door to ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 17, 2020
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Researchers in Australia have found a way to manipulate laser light at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
General Physics
Feb 17, 2020
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RUDN University chemists together with colleagues from other countries have synthesized new compounds that effectively bind lead ions and can be used to remove it from wastewater and even from living organisms—that is, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 28, 2020
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About 80 percent of water systems across the country use a disinfectant in drinking water that can lead to undesirable byproducts, including chloroform. There is an alternative, but many cities have been afraid to use it.
Environment
Jan 23, 2020
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A team of researchers from Japan, Indonesia and Germany has found evidence that suggests Homo erectus arrived on the island of Java approximately 300,000 years later than thought. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
