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Swapping rice for alternative cereals can reduce climate-induced production losses and increase farmer incomes in India
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Do Floating Solar Panels Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
The use of floating solar panels on freshwater bodies is an increasingly popular way of generating renewable energy. Such systems convert the sun’s rays into electricity while minimizing water evaporation. What’s more, they spare land that…
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Citrus Fruit Consumption Helps Protect against Depression via Gut Microbiome: Study
New research demonstrates a potential protective role of citrus fruit on the incidence of depression and suggests that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, a type of bacteria found in the human gut, and its metabolic activity may modulate the…
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Recycling Next-Gen Solar Cells With Water
In recent years, solar cells incorporating crystals known as perovskites have repeatedly broken records of how well they convert sunlight to electricity, suggesting they might help revolutionize photovoltaics. Now, a group of scientists have…
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Study: Walnut-Rich Breakfast Enhances Cognitive Performance throughout the Day
Eating 50 grams of walnuts mixed into muesli and yoghurt led to faster reaction times throughout the day and better memory performance later in the day when compared to eating an equivalent calorie-matched breakfast without nuts, according to…
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New Study Suggests That There Was Late Bottleneck Event in Neanderthal Evolution
This bottleneck event happened between 130,000 and 50,000 years ago, according to new research led by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universidad de Alcalá.
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Physicists Observe Synchronized Dance of Electrons on Buckminsterfullerene Molecule
Physicists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Hamburg have observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in unison around a subnanometer C60 fullerene (buckminsterfullerene) molecule.
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Surface of Earth’s Inner Core May Be Changing, Scientists Say
Geoscientists from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cornell University and the University of Utah say they have detected structural changes near the…
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Aluminum Batteries Outlive Lithium-Ion With a Pinch of Salt
Electric vehicles( EVs) and green energy sources rely heavily on batteries to store electricity. Currently, more than 75 percent of the world’s energy storage depends on batteries that contain lithium, an expensive mineral that’s subject to…
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