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Use of Glow Sticks in Traps Greatly Increases Amphibian Captures in Study
With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of Penn State researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expensive to capture adult salamanders and frogs.
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First Coast-To-Coast Land Motion Map of Scotland Derived from Satellite Radar Images
The first country-wide map of relative land motion has been created by a team at the University of Nottingham.
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Osaka University Chemists Unlock the Potential of Fluoroalkenes
One of the strongest chemical bonds in organic chemistry is formed between carbon and fluorine, giving unique properties to chemical compounds featuring this group. Pharmaceutical researchers are very interested in carbon-fluorine bond containing molecules because of the way they mimic certain behaviors of biological compounds. However, the strength of the carbon-fluorine bond makes it difficult…
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Why plants form sprouts in the dark
Exposed to light, plants turn green and form leaves. Not so in the dark. A signal responsible for this phenomenon has now been decoded.
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Cities Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far Beyond Their Urban Borders
Greenhouse gas emissions caused by urban households’ purchases of goods and services from beyond city limits are much bigger than previously thought. These upstream emissions may occur anywhere in the world and are roughly equal in size to the total emissions originating from a city’s own territory, a new study shows. This is not bad…
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Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Epidemics May Be Scale-dependent
Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease.
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Circadian clock discovery could help boost water efficiency in food plants
A discovery by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in Dallasprovides new insights about the biological or circadian clock, how it regulates high water-use efficiency in some plants, and how others, including food plants, might be improved for the same efficiency, possibly to grow in conditions uninhabitable for them today.
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Why the Post-Paris Climate Challenge Is Even Harder Than We Thought
Climate negotiators gathering in Germany this week are still flush with the success of the Paris Agreement two years ago. But as they begin assembling a rule book for ensuring that the national pledges made in Paris are fulfilled, there comes a hard dose of reality. Those pledges, which constrain greenhouse gas emissions from now…
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Relocating bus stops would cut riders' pollution exposure, UCLA study finds
oving bus stops away from intersections would substantially reduce the amount of pollution bus riders are exposed to, UCLA scientists report today in the journal Environmental Pollution.Research has shown that in many cities in the United States and internationally, bus riders frequently spend 15 to 25 minutes or more each way waiting for a bus.
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Alma's Image of Red Giant Star Gives a Surprising Glimpse of the Sun's Future
A Chalmers-led team of astronomers has for the first time observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. ALMA:s images show that the star is a giant, its diameter twice the size of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, but also that the star’s atmosphere is affected by…