Water Splitting In Contaminated Waters
Hydrogen is a clean source of energy as its combustion only results in water vapor. This is unlike the situation with fossil fuels, wherein its…
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The Challenge Of River Basin Monitoring
In the coming years, water management will face new challenges for several reasons. Global warming is reducing water availability, population growth is dramatically increasing global…
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Surface Properties Of Asteroids
Our solar system contains a myriad of bodies with sizes ranging from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. We call them asteroids. The most numerous…
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Dying Cancer Cells “Teach” Remaining Tumor How To Survive During Chemo- And Radiotherapy
Research performed during the last 50 years has led to great progress in the therapy of cancer. Scientists were able to dramatically increase both the…
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A Closer Look At The Properties Of Sand
When we fill a bucket up with sand, flip it upside down, and remove the bucket to make a sand castle, we usually don’t think…
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Characterizing Long-Term Groundwater Conditions And Lithology For The Design Of Large-Scale Borehole Heat Exchangers
The Earth’s subsurface remains at a relatively stable temperature at a given depth despite daily and seasonal changes in the weather at the surface. Rock…
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Asteroids And Comets Shower Mars With Organics
Life as we know it is based on water and organic compounds. Studying how water and organics form, evolve and move within our Solar System…
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Observing Magnetically-Mediated Behavior In Lab Mice
The ability of animals to sense the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial behaviors such as navigation and orientation is well-established. For example, the use of…
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Artificial Nanodecoys For Hepatitis B
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection places patients at high risk of death due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and it remains a global…
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How Math Can Help Us Build Better Drugs
Every one of our bodies contains trillions of cells, each of which plays a specific role to ensure our physiology remains stable, a state called…
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Trading Reproductive Potential For Survival? How Acidification Could Affect A Key Crustacean In The Future Ocean
The climate is changing. This dire scenario is slowly starting to be felt all around the world, with global temperature averages increasing and climate patterns…
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