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Future Generations: NSF-Funded Project Explores How Nanoplastics are Transmitted to Offspring

You can’t see nanoplastics with the naked eye, but they’re everywhere — including your body.

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Koala Stress Linked to Disease Threat

Researchers have revealed a clear relationship between stress and increased disease risk in koalas in South East Queensland and on the New South Wales North Coast.

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First Evidence That Plastic Nanoparticles Can Accumulate in the Edible Parts of Vegetables

Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.

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From Beer to Useful Fats and Medicines

The residues that remain when a brewery makes beer or whiskey are called spent grain or brewer’s spent grain (BSG).

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Gut Bacteria Linked to How Our Genes Switch On and Off

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a new research by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Turning Apple Waste Into Profit and Protein

Every year, as the presses churn and the sweet smell of cider fills the autumn air, more than 4 million tons of apple byproducts are hauled off as animal feed, compost or landfill waste.

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New UK-Wide Carbon Tracking Platform to Power Climate-Smart Farming

A new mobile research platform designed by Lancaster University scientists to track how carbon moves through UK farmland will support more sustainable, climate-smart agriculture.

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Heatwaves in US Rivers Increasing Up to Four Times Faster Than Air Heatwaves

As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves increase across the U.S., a similar but more striking phenomenon is occurring in American rivers.

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Ice Dissolves Iron Faster Than Liquid Water

Ice can dissolve iron minerals more effectively than liquid water, according to a new study from Umeå University. The discovery could help explain why many Arctic rivers are now turning rusty orange as permafrost thaws in a warming climate.

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Physicists Reach a New Milestone in Understanding the Universe’s Fundamental Forces

In the quest to decode the mysteries of the universe, researchers from the University of Rochester have been involved for decades with international collaborations at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN.

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