Boron Shines A Light On The Dark Side Of Inflammation
Inflammation, our bodies’ response to infection and injury, is generally regarded as a protective response that occurs to eliminate the offending stimulus and to promote…
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How Large Meteorite Impacts Affect Planetary Mantle Convection
Every now and then, car- or house-sized bodies entering Earth’s atmosphere from outer space meet a fiery end in a final blaze and remind us…
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How X-Ray Fluorescence Methods Reveal Past Climate Changes
Geology tries to understand the past by looking at the contemporary world. There is the famous phrase of uniformitarianism “Present is the key to the…
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Ban On The Use Of Bee-Killing Pesticides In U.S. Wildlife Refuges Overturned
Back in April the EU voted to completely ban the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam; all part of a group of chemicals called neonicotinoids – a widely used group…
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Deepwater Horizon Blowout Depleted Light Rare Earth Elements
Methane is an important ‘greenhouse gas’; that is, a gas that plays a role in earth’s heat balance and hence our climate. In fact, molecule…
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Mercury, Or The Beauty Of Ageing Planets
The Academy Award winner Anna Magnani once told her make-up artist: “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me my life to grow them.” [F1]…
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Is Energy Metabolism Homogeneous Within A Cell?
Energy metabolism is the essential group of chemical reactions that generates the energy that maintains our cells alive. But that isn’t all energy metabolism does!…
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Squeezing Dynamics In A Nanowire System
Nanowires provide novel mechanisms for scaling down semiconductor electronics [1]. Semiconducting nanowires have electronically switchable characteristics suitable for simple readout that is appropriate for sensing….
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First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created In Space
An international team of physicists reports that they have successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time. In the study published this past…
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Massive Dinosaur Uncovered Hints At Lost Link Between Africa And Europe
Though scientists have long known that Africa was home to unique species of dinosaurs not found anywhere else, little is known about how they got…
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New Rare Earth Elements Found In Amazon Estuary?
Nowadays, the industry is more and more demanding of many metals. Among these many metals are rare earth elements, and some of these elements (e.g.,…
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