Exploring Leaf and Litter Traits in Decomposition
Leaf-litter decomposition is a vital process in forest environments: this is how nutrients stored in leaves are recycled, returning to the soil and becoming available…
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Sham (Placebo) Surgery: Fake News Or Snake Oil?
Testing a drug against a placebo in a randomized double-blinded trial is the gold standard in the development of new treatment options in medicine. If…
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Creepy And Crawly? Infants Are Stressed When Seeing A Spider Or A Snake
Many people experience a strong dislike of everything crawling or slithering. While not everybody is afraid of spiders and snakes, clinical fears of these animals…
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Enhancing The Performance Of Parabolic Trough Collectors Using Nanofluids And Turbulators
Parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) is the most mature solar concentrating technology for useful heat production, up to 400oC. The PTC is used in a…
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Development Of Ionic Liquid-Based Nanofluids
Ionanofluids, which are an innovative class of new heat transfer fluids, consist of nanoparticles suspended in ionic liquids (ILs), thus, ionanofluids (INFs) are a special…
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Liquid Metal Activated Al-Water Reaction: A New Approach Leading To “Hy-Time”
When it comes to hydrogen production, people think of the electrolysis or photolysis of water. However, in these processes, the energy efficiency stays low, and…
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Is There A Hereditary Link Between Testicular And Ovarian Cancer?
Our research group at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, led by Kirsten Moysich, PhD, MS, is specifically interested in studying risk factors involved in the…
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Catalysts In The Chemical Industry
The chemical industry influences all our lives daily, everything from the components in the screen you are reading this article on to the fertilizer used…
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Enhancing Gypsum Precipitation In A Compacted Montmorillonite Using An Electrokinetic Method
Despite advances in solution chemistry, little is known about the chemical reactions in confined porous media like compacted clay, where the proportion of liquid is…
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The Complex Life Of Plants: Mitochondrial Translocase Complexes
Mitochondria are powerhouse organelles in the cell. They are mainly responsible for generating ATP, a high-energy molecule used in various cellular activities. The ATP production…
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Gaining Weight Through Bad Sleep? What Twin Studies Can Tell!
Studies show time and again that people who sleep poorly are more often overweight. A Spanish study has now examined what is behind it in…
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