Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water.
Materials Science
Jan 4, 2018
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A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, research at Oregon State University shows.
Biochemistry
Jan 4, 2018
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Arid lands, which cover some 40 percent of the Earth's terrestrial surface, are too dry to sustain much in the way of vegetation. But far from being barren, they are home to diverse communities of microorganisms—including ...
Environment
Jan 4, 2018
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NASA satellites provided data that showed a more well-formed storm and strong thunderstorms with heavy rainfall potential over central Madagascar and off-shore.
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2018
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Mark Zuckerberg says his "personal challenge" for 2018 is to fix Facebook.
Internet
Jan 4, 2018
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Technology companies are scrambling to fix serious security flaws affecting computer processors built by Intel and other chipmakers and found in many of the world's personal computers and smartphones.
Security
Jan 4, 2018
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The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite gathered data on rainfall rates occurring in Tropical Depression Bolaven as it moved toward Vietnam. Bolaven's final warning was issued early today, Jan. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2018
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Like Earth, space has weather. Except instead of swirling winds and downpours of precipitation, space weather is defined by shifting electric and magnetic fields and rains of charged particles. At the very beginning of space, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2018
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An international team of astronomers has revealed an 'astonishing' overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy.
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2018
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In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2018
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