Studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 remains active on aerosols and surfaces for between several hours and several days, depending on the nature of the surface and environmental conditions. Presently, researchers from Tel Aviv ...
Biochemistry
Feb 17, 2021
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It's that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit peak blubber to blubber as humpback whales migrate up Australia's east and west coasts from Antarctic waters.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2022
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The ocean can store much more heat than the atmosphere. The deep sea around Antarctica stores thermal energy that is the equivalent of heating the air above the continent by 400 degrees.
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2020
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New UC Riverside-led research settles a longstanding debate about whether the most ancient animal communities were deliberately mobile. It turns out they were, because they were hungry.
Archaeology
Jun 20, 2019
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A new paper reveals how the worst extinction in Earth's history may have been tied to the formation of Supercontinent Pangea. The catastrophe wasn't triggered by an impact from above—unlike another well-known extinction—but ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2013
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NUS chemists have developed carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for visible light-driven catalytic production of hydrogen gas from water.
Materials Science
Oct 9, 2019
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Where do tiny bits of plastic go when they are flushed out to sea?
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2019
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A team of researchers at MIT has found via theoretical modeling that the saltiness of the oceans on Saturn's moon, Enceladus, may be the right level to sustain life. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide in the air over the past 11,000 years.
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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France's nuclear monitor said on Thursday that the amount of caesium 137 that leaked into the Pacific from the Fukushima disaster was the greatest single nuclear contamination of the sea ever seen.
Environment
Oct 27, 2011
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