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Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management
Water security is becoming an urgent global challenge. Hundreds of millions of people already live in water-scarce regions, and the UN projects that by...
Common food additive causes adverse health effects in mice
A common food additive, recently banned in France but allowed in the U.S. and many other countries, was found to significantly alter gut microbiota...
Increased warming in latest generation of climate models likely caused by...
As scientists work to determine why some of the latest climate models suggest the future could be warmer than previously thought, a new study...
New research reveals how water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes...
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists provide the first conclusive evidence directly linking deep Earth's water cycle...
Simple device monitors health using sweat
A device that monitors health conditions in the body using a person's sweat has been developed by Penn State and Xiangtan University researchers, according...
Introducing a new isotope: Mendelevium-244
A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly...
Laser allows solid-state refrigeration of a semiconductor material
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct.
But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite—to cool materials....
Researchers study myxobacteria’s ability to distinguish self from non-self
A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse processes.
A University of Wyoming researcher and his...
Analysis of rates of police-related fatalities finds significant race-related differences
A study analyzing and describing US police-involved fatalities across racial/ethnic groups at the level of individual metropolitan statistical areas publishes June 24, 2020 in...
Unearthing evidence of more sophisticated manufacturing in the bronze age
The part of the Middle East where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow, known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, is often called the cradle...
Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep...
