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  Tropical Ecosystems Boost Carbon Dioxide as Temperatures Rises

  July 24, 2013 — NASA scientists and an international team of researchers have found tropical ecosystems can generate significant carbon dioxide when temperatures rise, unlike ecosystems in other parts of the ... > full story

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  • Tropical Ecosystems Regulate Variations in Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels
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  Cost of Arctic Methane Release Could Be 'Size of Global Economy', Experts Warn

  July 24, 2013 — Researchers have warned of an "economic time-bomb" in the Arctic, following a ground-breaking analysis of the likely cost of methane emissions in the region. Economic modelling shows that the methane ... > full story
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  Shifting Patterns of Temperature Volatility in the Climate System

  July 24, 2013 — In recent decades there has been increased variability in yearly temperature records for large parts of Europe and North America, according to a new ... > full story
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  New Light Shed on Cause of Pandemic Influenza

  July 24, 2013 — With the use of sophisticated mathematical modelling techniques, mathematicians have completed a study that explains the phenomenon of multiple waves of influenza pandemic in the last ... > full story
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  Neural Simulations Hint at the Origin of Brain Waves

  July 24, 2013 — Computer models of individual neurons are being assembled into neural circuits that produce actual electrical signals akin to brain waves. The results are helping solve the mystery of how and why ... > full story
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  Atmospheric Rivers Set to Increase UK Winter Flooding

  July 24, 2013 — The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in sunshine over the past month has given the country an unexpected taste of summer that has seemed to be missing in recent years. However, a new study ... > full story
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  Valley Networks Suggest Ancient Snowfall on Mars

  July 23, 2013 — Researchers have shown that some Martian valleys appear to have been caused by runoff from orographic precipitation -- moisture carried part of the way up a mountain and deposited on the slopes. The ... > full story
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  Perfecting Digital Imaging

  July 23, 2013 — Computer graphics and digital video lag behind reality; despite advances, the best software and video cameras still cannot seem to get computer-generated images and digital film to look exactly the ... > full story
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  Six Months of Computing Time Generates Detailed Portrait of Cloth Behavior

  July 23, 2013 — It would be impossible to compute all of the ways a piece of cloth might shift, fold and drape over a moving human figure. But after six months of computation, researchers are pretty sure they've ... > full story
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  Secrets of Mussels' Clinginess Revealed

  July 23, 2013 — Understanding the strength of the shellfish's underwater attachments could enable better glues and biomedical ... > full story

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