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Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans

June 2, 2020
News
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in...
Earth & Environmental, Materials
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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Plastic-eating superworms host biodegrading gut bacteria

May 29, 2020
News
Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively large size...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Molecular Biology
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Deep earthquake simulation may unravel geophysical mystery (video)

May 29, 2020
News
New computer modeling by Magali Billen, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis, offers new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes and could help unravel one of the...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Geology, Tectonics
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Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small

May 28, 2020
Insight
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Marine Biology, Zoology
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Listen to the song of the Arctic unicorn (video)

May 26, 2020
News
With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Marine Biology, Oceanography
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Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
News
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Medical/Health
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Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
News
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work where possible, the imperative for employers to implement upgraded health and safety monitoring...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Policy
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Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
News
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Virtual conference on low-carbon lifestyle changes

May 6, 2020
News
More than 500 researchers from all around the world will gather virtually tomorrow Wednesday May 6 at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Policy
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Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050

April 23, 2020
News
Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emissions. Human impact will intensify the risk of cascading climate change consequences still further if emissions aren’t checked.
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Geology, Geophysics
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