Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region’s ecosystem can be significant. This is especially true for the world’s Arctic region, where newly opened sea lanes will expose remote shorelines…
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Study: Omega-3 Supplementation May Slow Biological Aging
A new clinical trial involving over 700 older adults over a three-year period provides evidence supporting the geroprotective benefits of omega-3 supplementation and also suggests the benefits of additive combinations of omega-3…
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Toxic dangers lurk in LA, even in homes that didn’t burn
Even as firefighters douse the deadly LA wildfires, a more insidious danger remains. Chemicals from the ashy residue of thousands of burned homes and cars, scorched plastic pipes and even lifesaving fire retardants have blanketed parts…
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How to Grow a Laser on Silicon for Silicon Photonics
Today, silicon photonic circuits connect server racks and play key roles in chemical sensors, biosensors, and lidar for self-driving cars. But making these devices work requires an external light source, or multistep manufacturing processes to…
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Hydrostor’s Compressed-Air Energy Storage Loan in Limbo
Less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would loan Hydrostornearly US $1.8 billion to build the world’s biggest compressed-air energy storage facility, the agency placed the loan under review. The about-face is one…
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Tailored Superconducting Circuit for Quantum Technologies
• Physics 18, s12
A circuit containing four superconducting devices called Josephson junctions can be finely tuned for various technological applications.
Many quantum technologies rely on devices known as Josephson…
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The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics
• Physics 18, 24
The creation of modern quantum mechanics was a messy business in which many of the participants did not grasp the significance of their own discoveries.
M. F. Crommie, C. P. Lutz, and D. M. Eigler/IBM
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Deep-Sea Mining Guidelines Could Help us Figure Out Space Debris Regulation
Outer space could use a set of traffic laws — and cops who can enforce them.
The amount of both space junk and satellites orbiting the Earth now, the moon soon, and Mars eventually, poses a massive, unseen threat to people on the ground, wrote Continue Reading
Yerba Mate Genome Sequenced | Sci.News
An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), an economically important crop marketed for the elaboration of mate, the third-most widely consumed caffeine-containing infusion worldwide.
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AI Uncovers New Martian Impact Crater and Deep Seismic Signals
How do seismic waves travel within the interior of Mars? This is what two recent studies published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated impacts on Mars’…
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