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New tool helps communities shore up their wildfire defenses
A new way to plan for wildfire is moving in the right direction, thanks to University…
Tackling e-cigarettes: One path forward in the fight against e-waste pollution
Mounting evidence over the past decade has signaled to the dangers of e-cigarette use for individual…
Study: Caterpillar traces repel spider mites and may help agriculture
Competition for resources is everywhere in nature. It is a much riskier life for an animal…
Behind the formation and protection of microtubules
Cellular life hinges on a network of hollow cables called microtubules dynamically lengthening and shortening according…
Researchers develop clever algorithm to improve our understanding of particle beams in accelerators
Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each…
Solo rower launches Europe trek to expose river pollution
An intrepid French traveler embarked on Monday on a solo rowing expedition from Poland to France…
Middle Ordovician 'marine dwarf world' found in Castle Bank, Wales
An unusually well-preserved “Marine Dwarf World” from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank,…
New measurements suggest rethinking the shape of the Milky Way galaxy
A team of space scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at both the Purple Mountain…
Interdependent superconducting networks
In 2010 Prof. Shlomo Havlin and collaborators published an article in the journal Nature proposing that…