Will The Real Carbon Footprint Please Stand Up?
Slippery things, these carbon footprints can be. In principle, they are simple: the sum of all global warming emissions from cradle to grave of a…
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Creating The Next High Efficiency Power Generation Technology Through Selective Methanation Of CO
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEM FC) is considered as one promising clean and highly efficient power generation technology in the 21st century. PEM FC…
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What Placental-specific Genes Are Telling Us About Cancer
Cancer cells invade the surrounding tissue, making many cancers difficult to isolate and treat. If we determine how cancer cells become invasive, then we may…
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Linking Surface Volcanism To Deep Mantle Processes
Although most surface volcanism on the Earth is found at plate boundaries and is caused by shallow mantle processes, some surface volcanoes (e.g, Hawaii) occur…
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Trip To An Asteroid: Hayabusa 2 Is Now Traveling Toward C-type Asteroid Ryugu
Still, in the 21st century, we don’t have the answer to this big question: How our Earth, life, and this solar system were made? The…
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What’s The Unintended Consequence Of Electric Cars?
Ozone. No, not the ‘good’ ozone up in the stratosphere that protects us from cosmic rays. I mean the ‘bad’ ozone down here where we…
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Biodiversity Conservation Through Sustainable Companies
The human population obtains benefits from nature, through ecosystem services. These services are divided in (i) Provisioning services (products obtained from biomes, like water, wood,…
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The Impact History Of Asteroids Revealed In Cosmic Dust
The asteroid belt is a collection of approximately 300,000 objects greater than 1km in diameter. These solar system “small bodies” sit between Mars and Jupiter…
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Silver-sulfur Supertetrahedral Clusters: Filling A Gap In The Field Of Metal-Chalcogenide Tetrahedral Clusters
Metal chalcogenide supertetrahedral clusters (SCs) are regular tetrahedrally shaped fragments of the cubic semiconducting ZnS type lattice. SCs can be looked upon as the smallest…
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Climate Change Impacts On Fisheries And Biodiversity Of Pacific Island Countries And Territories
People often think of Pacific Island Countries and Territories as a tropical paradise teeming with coral reefs and abundant and diverse fishes, but changing conditions…
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Aggregation Induced Emission: Using New Luminescent Materials for Food Safety Monitoring
In 2016, the world shipped over USD 220 billion of meats and seafood. Naturally, ensuring the quality and safety of these foods is a major…
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