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Researchers Help Solar Power Take Flight

Solar panels have the power to make the aviation industry greener than it’s ever been, but they can also impose challenges for pilots and air traffic control.

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How Plants Evolved Multiple Ways to Override Genetic Instructions

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants multiple ways to override instructions that are coded into their DNA.

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Coyotes Thrive Despite Human and Predator Pressures

Once a rare sight in the northeastern United States, the eastern coyote has become a common presence across New Hampshire’s forests, farms and suburbs.

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New Study: Earthquake Prediction Techniques Lend Quick Insight Into Strength, Reliability of Materials

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the degradation and failure of materials used for advanced solar panels, geological carbon sequestration and infrastructure such as buildings, roads and bridges.

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Bio-Based Fibres Could Pose Greater Threat to the Environment Than Conventional Plastics

Bio-based materials may pose a greater health risk to some of the planet’s most important species than the conventional plastics they are designed to replace, a new study has shown.

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A Week of Rain Across Spain

On October 29, 2024, a period of intense rainfall inundated Valencia province in eastern Spain. 

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AI-Powered System Detects Toxic Gases with Speed and Precision

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science developed an AI-powered system that mimics the human sense of smell to detect and track toxic gases in real time. 

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Domino Effect in the Amazon Region

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

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Satellite Imagery May Help Protect Coastal Forests From Climate Change

Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate damage and allocate conservation resources.  

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New Trigger Proposed for Record-Smashing 2022 Tonga Eruption

Previously unstudied data from a seismic wave, detected 750 kilometers from the seamount, Maybolster tsunami early-warning systems.

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