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  Direct Nitrogen Fixation for Low Cost Energy Conversion

  July 24, 2013 — Researchers have announced a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs), which could be used in dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells The ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
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  Coastal Antarctic Permafrost Melting Faster Than Expected: Arctic-Like Melt Rates Appearing in Coastal Antarctica

  July 24, 2013 — Scientists have documented an acceleration in the melt rate of permafrost in a part of Antarctica where the ice had been considered stable. The melt rates are comparable with the Arctic and could ... > full story
• Environmental Issues
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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
• Air Quality
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  Low Radon Concentrations Accurately Measurable for the First Time

  July 24, 2013 — You can't see it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it -- but at high doses, it can be lethal: the natural radioactive noble gas radon occurs especially in places where the subsoil consists of ... > full story
• Bacteria
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  Infectious Diseases
   

  Copper Nanoparticles Could Protect Food from Bacteria

  July 24, 2013 — Scientists have found a new way to stop dangerous bacteria like E.coli before they attack. He embeds copper nanoparticles into vermiculite, an inexpensive, inert compound. Copper has been known for ... > full story
• Astronomy
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  NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON

  July 23, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later ... > full story
• Mars
  Solar System
  Space Missions
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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
• Global Warming
  Climate
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  Rapid Upper Ocean Warming Linked to Declining Aerosols

  July 23, 2013 — Australian scientists have identified causes of a rapid warming in the upper subtropical oceans of the Southern ... > full story
• Materials Science
  Chemistry
  Engineering and Construction
  Organic Chemistry
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  Non-Toxic Flame Retardants

  July 23, 2013 — Flame retardants are often extremely harmful to health. Despite this, they are found in many types of synthetic materials which would otherwise ignite quickly. Researchers have now succeeded in ... > full story
• Forest
  Global Warming
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  Nature
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  First High-Resolution National Carbon Map of Panama

  July 22, 2013 — Researchers have for the first time mapped the above ground carbon density of an entire country in high fidelity. They integrated field data with satellite imagery and high-resolution airborne Light ... > full story

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