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  • Beyond the lab: trust, storytelling and the fight for America’s attention

    Beyond the lab: trust, storytelling and the fight for America’s attention

    Public trust in science is rapidly declining, but scientists can help to rebuild it. By stepping out of the lab, embracing storytelling and engaging directly with communities, scientists can show the human side of discovery and make science more…

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  • Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards

    Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards

    Although it might seem counter-intuitive, writing the middle and end of your thesis first can make the process easier, says Tuuli Toivonen.Credit: Oscar Wong/Getty

    PhD theses usually come in two forms. Standard monographs, a comprehensive…

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  • Lifecycle carbon intensity with embodied emissions of battery and hydrogen-driven integrative low-carbon systems

    Lifecycle carbon intensity with embodied emissions of battery and hydrogen-driven integrative low-carbon systems

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    This paper originally develops several calculation models as shown in Fig. 7.

    Fig. 7: Schematic diagram of the generic method for integrating buildings with electric vehicles and hydrogen systems.

    a Bidirectional energy interactions…

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  • Tracking air pollution and CO2 emissions in 13,189 urban areas worldwide using large geospatial datasets

    Tracking air pollution and CO2 emissions in 13,189 urban areas worldwide using large geospatial datasets

  • Raaschou-Nielsen, O. et al. Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE). Lancet Oncol. 14, 813–822 (2013).

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  • Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data

    Exploring crop health and its associations with fungal soil microbiome composition using machine learning applied to remote sensing data

  • Viana, C. M. & Rocha, J. Evaluating dominant land use/land cover changes and predicting future scenario in a rural region using a memoryless stochastic method. Sustainability 12, 4332 (2020).

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  • Edible aquatic robots with Marangoni propulsion

    Edible aquatic robots with Marangoni propulsion

    Design and modeling

    The aquatic robot, endowed with water-sensing, energy storage and production, and self-propelling capabilities, consists of a multi-layered structure made of entirely edible materials for aquatic fauna (Fig. 1b). The operating…

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  • Rapid and high-throughput analysis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in honey by MALDI-MS with in-situ tetra (4-aminophenyl)-porphyrin derivatization

    Rapid and high-throughput analysis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in honey by MALDI-MS with in-situ tetra (4-aminophenyl)-porphyrin derivatization

    General principle of TAPP-based in-situ derivatization

    For MALDI MS, the direct detection of small molecules remains a challenge29. This is primarily due to low desorption/ionization efficiency and interference from matrix-related signals, as…

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  • Fenugreek and Okra Extracts Remove Up To 90% of Microplastics from Water Sources, Study Shows

    Fenugreek and Okra Extracts Remove Up To 90% of Microplastics from Water Sources, Study Shows

    In a new study by Tarleton State University scientists, okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater and groundwater.

    Srinivasan et al. demonstrated that plant-based…

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