California suffered through its hottest July on record, while August has pushed sea-surface temperatures off the San Diego coast to all-time highs.
Environment
Aug 20, 2018
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Scientists from the Higher School of Economics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences have investigated how vortex flows penetrate the interior of a liquid. The authors of the article ...
General Physics
Aug 3, 2018
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Doctors around the country are already seeing evidence that climate change is affecting the health of their patients. In Florida, people are asking for more medication; as heat waves aggravate their medical conditions, such ...
Environment
Mar 13, 2018
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It is one of the great ironies of biochemistry: life on Earth could not have begun without water; yet water stymies some chemical reactions necessary for life itself.
Materials Science
Oct 23, 2017
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Brown University researchers have demonstrated for the first time a method of substantially changing the spatial coherence of light.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 18, 2017
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a miniature device capable of producing laser-like beams of a particular kind of electromagnetic wave called a surface plasmon. Surface plasmons can be focused much more tightly than ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 17, 2017
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After the mid-1990s, the global surface temperature presented a significant warming trend. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the global mean surface temperature of the period from 2011 to 2015 has increased ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2017
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The notion of glitter might appear as somewhat frivolous, but scientists are using Sun glitter in images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to map the motion of the sea surface.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2017
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The ancients believed that the Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres, which produced divine music when they moved. We lived, so to speak, in a huge musical instrument. This may sound silly but modern science has proved ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2017
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Looking at waves in the open sea with 'electronic eyes', so as to reconstruct it in 3-D, scientists at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (Ismar-Cnr) found ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2017
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