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  • Interpretable AI-driven multidimensional chemical fingerprints for geographical authentication of Euryales Semen

    Interpretable AI-driven multidimensional chemical fingerprints for geographical authentication of Euryales Semen

    Stable isotopic ratios

    The distribution trends of stable isotopic values (δ13C, δ15N, δ2H, and δ18O) are visualized in box plots (Fig. 2A–D). The geographical sites included Huaian City in Jiangsu Province (JSHA), Chuzhou City in Anhui…

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  • Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer

    Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer

    A technical writer can complete grant applications, reports and manuscripts, freeing up time for a principal investigator to do more science.Credit: chrispecoraro/Getty

    I first learnt that I can tell an engaging story when I was ten years old and…

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  • Unequal competition: the fate of domestic fisheries facing distant water fishing in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

    Unequal competition: the fate of domestic fisheries facing distant water fishing in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

    The tuna data set evaluated here in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean highlights increasing competition between domestic fishing fleets (i.e., Brazil) and DWF operations, both in terms of targeted species and fishing areas. Fishing effort for DWF,…

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  • Plastics pollution is surging — the planned UN treaty to curb it must be ambitious

    Plastics pollution is surging — the planned UN treaty to curb it must be ambitious

    Plastics pollution is a growing environmental problem and has implications for human health.Credit: Ed Wray/Getty

    Worldwide consumption of plastics is ballooning. More than half of the plastics ever…

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  • Melting glaciers are awakening Earth’s most dangerous volcanoes

    Melting glaciers are awakening Earth’s most dangerous volcanoes

    Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes.

    Presented today (July 8) at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague,…

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  • Turning Olivine Into Valuable NMC Battery Components

    Turning Olivine Into Valuable NMC Battery Components

    Olivine is a rather unassuming rock. Olive-brown to yellow-green in color, this hard yet brittle mineral is thought to be the most abundant in Earth’s upper mantle. Chemically, olivine is magnesium iron silicate, though it contains other…

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  • What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart

    What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart

    Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure to heavy metals reduces the frequency (and audible pitch) of non-flight wing vibrations, which could have consequences on…

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