Aquatic life can suffer when high concentrations of dissolved salts enter freshwater ecosystems, a process known as salinization.
Environment
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In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new, more general law for predicting the wavelength of complex wrinkle patterns, including those found on curved surfaces, ...
General Physics
Feb 25, 2016
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US lawmakers Thursday called a hearing next week on encryption, saying they hope to craft "a solution" to the standoff between Apple and law enforcement over accessing locked devices.
Security
Feb 25, 2016
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If you imagine a cell as a house, protein production can be a fairly relatable engineering feat. A master blueprint (DNA) holds all the information about what goes where. If you just want to build a door (protein), you only ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2016
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If you could build your dream smartphone, what would it look like? Now suppose you could put it together yourself.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 25, 2016
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It's tax time, so you'd better think twice before clicking on that link in your email inbox.
Security
Feb 25, 2016
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The key Tricastin market for black truffles in southeastern France is closing two weeks early because of "catastrophic" underproduction blamed on a hot summer and a mild winter, the industry said Thursday.
Ecology
Feb 25, 2016
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The once Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston was winding down when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over it early on Feb. 25 is it continued weakening in the South Pacific. Now sub-tropical, Winston was threatening ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2016
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The fourteenth tropical cyclone in the Southern Pacific Ocean developed as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead. The AIRS instrument aboard Aqua captured infrared, near-visible and microwave data on Tropical Cyclone Yalo ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2016
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Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, the Stanford University School of Medicine and two other institutions have discovered that bacteria have a system that can recognize and disrupt dangerous viruses using a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2016
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