Blame wood-burning stoves for winter air pollution and health threats
It may be natural, but there's nothing safe or environmentally sound about heating your home with wood.
Environment
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Rising temperatures overcook bumblebees' brunch
Bumblebees pollinate many of our favorite foods, but their own diet is being upset by climate change, according to a new UC Riverside study.
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2021
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Customizing catalysts for solid-state reactions
Chemists at Hokkaido University and the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) have developed the first high-performance catalyst specifically designed and optimized for solid-state, mechanochemical ...
Polymers
Mar 9, 2023
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Researchers find way to form diodes from superconductors
A group of researchers from Pisa, Jyväskylä, San Sebastian and MIT have demonstrated how a heterostructure consisting of superconductors and magnets can be used to create unidirectional current like that found in semiconductor ...
Superconductivity
May 11, 2022
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Deep Earth heat surprise
The key to understanding Earth's evolution is to look at how heat is conducted in the deep lower mantle—a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2013
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Study finds only one type of consumer dictates price
It's commonly assumed that the supply-and-demand economics of the consumer marketplace dictates price. If you are one of few retailers that sells a product consumers want, you can charge more. If supplies of that product ...
Economics & Business
Apr 11, 2023
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Volcanic rocks hold clues to Earth's interior
The journey for volcanic rocks found on many volcanic islands began deep within the Earth.
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2015
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NTT develops current-injection photonic-crystal laser
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has developed an current-injection photonic-crystal laser with ultralow power consumption that can be applied to off-chip and on-chip optical data transmission for microprocessors.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 14, 2012
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A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is made
On a typical day at the world's biggest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, you can find scientists casually making star-like conditions using 192 high-powered lasers. Stars in the universe ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 21, 2019
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Some black truffles grown in eastern US may be less valuable lookalike species, study finds
Some truffle producers in the eastern U.S. intending to grow European black truffles (Tuber melanosporum) are also accidentally cultivating winter truffles (Tuber brumale), a related species that looks nearly identical but ...
Ecology
Jun 26, 2023
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