The interior of comets and asteroids is still poorly known. A better knowledge of these small Solar bodies is particularly interesting as these bodies contain…
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The impacts of climate change are vividly expressed in ecosystems, and such climate-induced alterations can be monitored in vegetation. Lately, mountain ecosystems have undergone accelerated…
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Important geochemical and biogeochemical processes such as organic carbon decomposition and contaminant remediation take place at the pore scale. Pore-scale modeling provides a powerful tool…
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Plants produce and build up triacylglycerol (TAG, familiar to most people as vegetable oils) in their seeds as a main carbon and energy resource for…
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Most people living in the high-income world may be unaware of a “silent killer” that is estimated to cause over 2 million deaths annually.1 “Household air…
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Fossil amber from present-day Myanmar – commonly called Burmese amber – continuingly yields amazing new discoveries. Among these are three new wasp species with bizarre,…
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Convective outlook is used by NOAA to provide the public and meteorologists information on the potential severity and probability of occurrence of a weather system…
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For the Mars surface exploration mission, a vehicle, e.g. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), should fly through the atmosphere and land on the Mars surface using…
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Composite materials are inherently anisotropic and heterogeneous at the micromechanical scale, and its microstructure provides the bridge between manufacturing and performance. Prediction of performance and…
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Mars is a planet of geological curiosities that often have no parallels on Earth. Among these include the largest and deepest canyon system — Valles…
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In the broadest sense, nanomaterial is defined as a structure that is within the size of 1-1000 nanometers, i.e., 10-9 – 10-6 meters, in two…
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