Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery not only sheds light on the mechanism behind the alga's structural coloration, ...
Ecology
May 20, 2024
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The TRAPPIST-1 solar system generated a swell of interest when it was observed several years ago. In 2016, astronomers using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at La Silla Observatory in Chile ...
Planetary Sciences
May 15, 2024
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In February, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Turkey-Syria border, followed by one nearly as large nine hours later. Shallow faults less than 18 miles beneath the surface buckled and ruptured, causing violent focused ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2023
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Japan's decision to release water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has been greeted with horror by the local fishing industry as well as China and several Pacific Island states. China—which together with Hong Kong ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2023
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Archaeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru's capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club.
Archaeology
Jun 16, 2023
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It's common knowledge that reducing our carbon footprint is important, but what about our water footprint?
Environment
Mar 30, 2023
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In the United States, public water systems are sometimes dosed with phosphate to reduce copper levels and lead pipe corrosion. This practice can help avert humanitarian disasters like the Flint water crisis, but because phosphorus ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2023
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Searun rainbow smelt—a culturally and ecologically valuable fish for New England anglers, consumers and marine ecosystems—is on the decline. Determining the extent of that decline, however, is difficult in Maine. Searun ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2023
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The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost—the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain.
Environment
Jan 19, 2023
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A new synthesis of two decades of data has elucidated the startling transformation of the warming Gulf of Maine. Gathered and analyzed by researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, the study shows many trends that ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2022
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