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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grassland Conversion: Soil Carbon Release Risks Explained

Grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the United States may be increasingly converted to growing bioenergy grain crops. Questions abound…

Life & Chemistry

Good Bacteria: A Pathway for Oral Anthrax Vaccines

The oral vaccine riding inside the good bacteria makes it way through the stomach and into the small intestine, an important immunological organ, where it…

Technology Offerings

New Hail Sensor Innovates Automatic Weather Monitoring

The hail sensor developed by Prof. Dr. Löffler-Mang at University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken is suitable for the automatic registration of hail and for…

Corporate News

Bangkok's express train off to a good start – Completion of the airport link expected shortly

Thai Minister of Transport, Sophon Zarum, and the Chairman of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), Youtdana Tupcharoen, were onboard for the first trip and…

Earth Sciences

Identifying Strain and Slip in Major Earthquake Faults

The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) is the first geologic study of the underwater subduction zone faults that give rise to the massive…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles

“The aim of nanotechnology is to put specific atomic and molecular species where we want them and when we want them there,” said NYU Chemistry Professor…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Brain-Loneliness Connection Insights

Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows. The research, presented Sunday at a…

Environmental Conservation

Coastal Fish Farms: Managing Waste and Environmental Impact

If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open…

Environmental Conservation

Modeling Greenhouse Gas Travels: A New Approach to Climate Data

A University of Michigan researcher is developing a unique way to reconcile these crucial data. “If we're going to adapt to climate change, we need to be able…

Life & Chemistry

New Hydrogen Purification Method Boosts Fuel Cell Efficiency

For the hydrogen economy, one of the roadblocks to success is the hydrogen itself. Hydrogen needs to be purified before it can be used as fuel for fuel cells,…

Life & Chemistry

A new gene silencing platform — silence is golden

A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi…

Earth Sciences

Satellites in Climate Monitoring: Progress and Challenges

In the nearly 50 years of meteorological satellite observations, the data have increasingly been used to complement research satellite data for purposes of…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Activity Trends: Insights for Future Impacts

It is premature to conclude that human activity–particularly greenhouse warming–has had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricanes, and Model simulations…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

Graphene consists of a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms. While scientists have predicted that the orientation of atoms along the edges of the lattice would…

Earth Sciences

Thawing Permafrost in Northern Sweden: Impacts and Insights

Permafrost is ground that is frozen year round at least two years in a row. North of the Arctic Circle permafrost is common due to the cold climate.For several…

Earth Sciences

New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica

These findings are helping scientists understand the full spectrum of motions occurring on the fault and may yield new insights into the events that lead to…

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