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Less Ice, More Water: Arctic Ocean Changes by 2050s

“We hear all the time about how sea ice extent in the Arctic is going down,” says Katy Barnhart, who led the study while at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic…

Earth Sciences

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: New Findings on Carbon Removal

Hydrothermal vents are hotspots of activity on the otherwise dark, cold ocean floor. Since their discovery, scientists have been intrigued by these deep ocean…

Life & Chemistry

Hepatitis A Virus Origin Revealed in Large-Scale Study

An international team of researchers under the direction of the University of Bonn has now discovered in a large-scale study with nearly 16,000 specimens from…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Cyclone Chapala’s Approach to Yemen

NASA's Aqua satellite and the GPM satellite passed over Cyclone Chapala as it was approaching landfall in central Yemen on November 2. The Global Precipitation…

Life & Chemistry

Study Unveils Tuberculosis Enzyme Structure for New Drug Targets

Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, has proved incredibly stubborn even in the age of powerful antibiotics, infecting about one third…

Materials Sciences

Ultrasensitive Boron-Doped Graphene Sensors for Gas Detection

Graphene is known for its remarkable strength and ability to transport electrons at high speed, but it is also a highly sensitive gas sensor. With the addition…

Earth Sciences

Harnessing Human Waste: Biogas Innovation for Energy Solutions

Biogas from human waste, safely obtained under controlled circumstances using innovative technologies, is a potential fuel source great enough in theory to…

Earth Sciences

Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica’s ice masses

The new publication for the first time shows the inevitable consequence of such an event. According to the computer simulations, a few decades of ocean warming…

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Siemens and Netze BW Launch Smart Grid Solution for Networks

 

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Explore New Applications for Compact IP65/67 IO System

Compact Simatic ET 200AL IO system with new M12 modules
Higher channel density with more IOs per module
Greater distance between modules for use in large…

Information Technology

Record-Setting Flexible Phototransistor Developed at UW-Madison

Inspired by mammals' eyes, University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever…

Life & Chemistry

Prkci Gene Regulates Stem Cell Behavior: New USC Research

In a paper published in Stem Cell Reports, USC researcher In Kyoung Mah from the lab of Francesca Mariani and colleagues at the University of California, San…

Earth Sciences

Chesapeake Bay’s Extreme Weather: Insights for Future Climate

The intensity, duration, and frequency of extreme temperature- and precipitation-based events are key components to understanding the climate of Chesapeake Bay.

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Ice Sheet Gains Outpace Losses, NASA Study Shows

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that…

Materials Sciences

Discovering Methane Hydrates: The Ice That Burns

Methane hydrates are a kind of ice that contains methane, and that form at certain depths under the sea or buried in permafrost. They can also form in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Mott Device Powers New Approach to Interruptions

The research team, led by Dr. Hyun-Tak Kim of Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, has developed an innovative power interruption…

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