Scientists may have found an antidote to pesticides that are directly and indirectly killing bees, according to a new paper published in Nature Sustainability showing promising early results in common eastern bumblebees.
Ecology
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The effect of urbanization on temperature is relatively well-known: cities are often measurably warmer than their surrounding rural areas. This is called the urban heat island effect. What fewer people know is that the urban ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2024
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Imagine a sensor so sensitive it can detect early cancer in a single drop of blood, enabling diagnosis and treatment before the first symptoms—possibly before a tumor even forms.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 5, 2024
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During the Age of Sail, sailors riding the trade winds past the equator dreaded becoming stranded in the doldrums, a meteorologically distinct region in the deep tropics. For at least a century, scientists have thought that ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2024
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Researchers have achieved data rates as high as 424Gbit/s across a 53-km turbulent free-space optical link using plasmonic modulators—devices that use special light waves called surface plasmon polaritons to control and ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 6, 2024
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The Boundary Layer Transition 1B (BOLT-1B) experiment, a joint research project of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), ...
Space Exploration
Sep 5, 2024
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Super Typhoon Yagi slammed into southern China's Hainan island on Friday, bringing windspeeds of over 230 kilometers (143 miles) an hour in what is set to be the strongest storm to hit the region in more than a decade.
Environment
Sep 6, 2024
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