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Life & Chemistry

Organic Carbon Reveals Swedish Lakes’ Acidification History

During the 1970s and 1980s, researchers and policymakers became increasingly worried about multiple consequences of acidic emissions of sulfur dioxide and…

Health & Medicine

Kids' anxiety, depression halved when parenting styled to personality

ut which parenting styles work best with which kids? A study by University of Washington psychologists provides advice about tailoring parenting to children's…

Information Technology

UM School of Medicine finds that mobile phone technology helps patients manage diabetes

An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new…

Earth Sciences

Impact Rates of Asteroids: Periodic Variations Explained

Several studies have claimed to have found periodic variations, with the probability of giant impacts increasing and decreasing in a regular pattern. Now a new…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Anthropogenic Nitrogen’s Impact on Carbon Sequestration

A new study published online this week in Nature Geoscience reports now that the climatic benefits from carbon sequestration are largely offset by increased…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Self-Powered Water Purification Unit Launches in Singapore

The pilot facility for this process, which is located at a site run by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board, has been operating in an energy- neutral manner…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Computer Model Enhances Wind Farm Efficiency and Performance

When the wind causes the huge rotors to turn, it generates turbulence, which interferes with the operation of the wind turbines in the rows to the rear. To…

Earth Sciences

Geographic Analysis Reveals Insights Into Coral Disease Spread

Now a University of Florida geographer and his colleagues applied Geographic Information Systems, known as GIS — as well as software previously used to examine…

Earth Sciences

NASA identifies the areas of Tropical Storm Muifa's strength

Tropical Storm Muifa is moving through the western North Pacific Ocean, and had strengthened during the early morning hours of July 28. On July 27, it was…

Earth Sciences

NASA eyes Tropical Storm Nock-Ten's heavy rains for Hainan Island and Vietnam

Bands of strong thunderstorms that make up tropical storm Nock-ten were visible in an infrared image captured on July 28 by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Wildfire Pollution Over Niagara Falls

One instrument that flies aboard two of NASA's satellites has provided two views of the pollution from the fires in Ontario. The Moderate Resolution Imaging…

Life & Chemistry

Using a 'systems biology' approach to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer

Using a “systems biology” approach – which focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological systems – to look under the hood of an…

Awards Funding

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant awarded to UNESCO-IHE and partner

The grant will be used to excel postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on solutions for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and…

Physics & Astronomy

SOHO Watches Comet Fade Away in Stunning Celestial Event

But the comet was also observed from another spacecraft: the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO), better known for its observations of the sun. Together,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Thermopower Efficiency Unveiled

Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have discovered a new relation among electric and magnetic fields and differences in temperature, which may lead…

Studies and Analyses

Economic And Environmental Gains From Reducing Nitrogen Pollution

A new study co-authored by Columbia Engineering professor Kartik Chandran and recently published in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology, shows that…

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