The "internet of things," a growing web of interconnected devices—constituting everything from smart bulbs to warehouse robots—is posited as a central pillar of the "fourth industrial revolution" because of how drastically ...
Biotechnology
Jan 16, 2023
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Violent storms continue to rake large portions of the California coast, causing heavy rainfall, mass flooding, wind damage, and up to 12 deaths. The storms started as a "bomb cyclone" over New Year's weekend and seem to have ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2023
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a "major scientific breakthrough" Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.
Plasma Physics
Dec 13, 2022
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At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years.
Evolution
Dec 8, 2022
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Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa's Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land in people's gardens, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2022
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Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on "leap seconds"—the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), ...
General Physics
Nov 21, 2022
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Animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions. Evidence is mounting to show that plants can, too. A paper publishing in the journal Trends in Plant Science on November 17 details how plants are rapidly ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2022
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A small team of researchers affiliated with institutions in Norway, Sweden and Austria, has found evidence that suggests a flaw in the original story of how Ötzi (the Iceman) remained preserved for so long. In their paper ...
The UN's chief warned Monday that nations must cooperate or face "collective suicide" in the fight against climate change, at a summit where developing countries reeling from global warming demanded more action from rich ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2022
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Peatlands, like seas and oceans, sequester carbon from the atmosphere. They are considered to contain the largest terrestrial carbon stores. Plant remains, and thus carbon, that break down in areas covered with water are ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2022
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