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| Conversion process turns pollution into cash Posted: 18 Mar 2022 01:14 PM PDT Engineers have developed a promising electrochemical system to convert emissions from chemical and power plants into useful products while addressing climate change. |
| Artificial intelligence paves the way to discovering new rare-earth compounds Posted: 18 Mar 2022 01:14 PM PDT Artificial intelligence advances how scientists explore materials. Researchers trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of rare-earth compounds. The framework they developed builds on current state-of-the-art methods for experimenting with compounds and understanding chemical instabilities. |
| Could we make cars out of petroleum residue? Posted: 18 Mar 2022 01:14 PM PDT Researchers have developed a way to make lightweight fibers, for possible use in the bodies of cars, out of an ultracheap feedstock: the waste material from the refining of petroleum. |
| New, possibly arboreal rice rat species discovered in Ecuador Posted: 18 Mar 2022 08:02 AM PDT Three expeditions led an international research to the Cordillera de Kutukú, an isolated mountain range in Ecuador, to find just one specimen of the previously unknown species. The find in the Amazonian side of the Andes underlines the valuable biological role of this mountainous region. |
| Wildfires devastate the land they burn, and they are also warming the planet Posted: 18 Mar 2022 08:02 AM PDT The 2021 wildfire season broke records globally, leaving land charred from California to Siberia. The risk of fire is growing, and a recent report warned that wildfires are on track to increase 50% by 2050. These fires destroy homes, plant life, and animals as they burn, but the risk doesn't stop there. Researchers detail how the brown carbon released by burning biomass in the northern hemisphere is accelerating warming in the Arctic and warn that this could lead to even more wildfires in the future. |
| Regrown tropical forests may have short lifespans, says new study Posted: 18 Mar 2022 07:49 AM PDT Preventing the re-clearing of second-growth forests is a major challenge for restoration efforts in tropical regions, according to a new study. The study found that a third of regenerating areas in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest were cut down again, most after just 4 to 8 years of regeneration. |
| Industrial discharge is the dominant mercury source in Korea’s west coast Posted: 18 Mar 2022 06:21 AM PDT Researchers have used mercury (Hg) stable isotopes to verify the Hg sources in the sediment and fish along the west coast of Korea. |
| Visible ocean plastics just the tip of the iceberg Posted: 18 Mar 2022 06:21 AM PDT Simulating a half century of movement and degradation of plastic waste in the ocean, a new study estimates that nearly two-thirds of ocean plastics are outside the reach of current monitoring methods. Furthermore, the study suggests that the estimated 25.3 million metric tons of total ocean plastics may represent only 5% of all mismanaged plastic waste to date, with the rest still on land. |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2022 05:02 AM PDT An analysis of data from more than 3,000 mother-child pairs from six European countries indicates that prenatal exposure to bisphenol A may have negative effects on respiratory health in school-age girls. |
| New insight into the possible origins of life Posted: 18 Mar 2022 05:02 AM PDT Researchers have for the first time been able to create an RNA molecule that replicates, diversifies and develops complexity, following Darwinian evolution. This has provided empirical evidence that simple biological molecules can lead to the emergence of complex lifelike systems. |
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