Understanding the sensitivity of glaciers to changes in climate provides insight into the climatic drivers of past glaciations and helps us predict how glaciers and…
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Whenever new research tools become available, scientists get excited about new options to explore, new inventions to make, paradigms to shift, and to kick scientific…
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Nanotechnology is a rapidly-growing technology in our time. Nanoparticles are very small objects with a diameter ranging from 1 to 100 nm, where 1 nm…
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Going for an outdoor walk in our cities for taking fresh air, enjoying a panorama, sight seeing a monument, or shopping and having a drink can…
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Vocal communication between individuals is vital to navigating social situations. Often when we think about vocal communication, we think about speech in humans or song…
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Photocatalysis is an acceleration of a photoreaction in the presence of light by a photocatalyst. As the photocatalyst is exposed to the light (i.e UV light),…
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A number of recent polls in the U.S claim that the fear of going blind is ranked higher than that of any other health issue,…
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Like most power plants, nuclear power plants heat water to generate electricity. But nuclear power plants use heat from splitting atoms rather than burning fossil…
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In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein reorganized Iraq into eighteen provinces to divide minority ethnic groups and weaken their ability to challenge the central government. This…
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Fresh water is a scarce yet strategic resource. Its availability and accessibility have a great impact not only on human lives, as it is a…
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Photoacoustic imaging, which uses optical contrast for ultrasound detection, is currently the fastest-growing field in the area of biomedical imaging research. While endogenous contrasts like…
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