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Historians and climate scientists use a variety of tools to measure climate in the past including tree-rings, ice cores, ocean and lake sediment, historical accounts, agricultural production documents, and economic indicators such as tax and tithe...
by Alan Singer
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 04:57 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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There’s a revolutionary new paper from Oxford University out today in Nature Nanotechnology that challenges one of our basic understandings of how things are supposed to work in the field of electromagnetism — the idea that like charges are supposed to...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:04 PM PST
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In case you missed it, there is a tempest over what goes in a tea cup, sparked by research into what makes a good cup of tea. From NPR: A U.S. scientist's tea recipe has Brits aghast. Salt? Warm milk? The horror! LONDON — It was an innocent little...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 06:42 PM PST
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Battery-Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are becoming the default transportation answer to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and getting off fossil fuels. The speed of their adoption is directly linked to ...
by xaxnar
163 comments
on Sun Jul 23, 2023 at 12:02 PM PDT
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. � This is the ...
by birches
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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We all love the natural light and the views that windows provide. This I declare from the living-room chair in which I often watch the Moon rise among the trees through the picture window facing East. But we wish they wouldn’t allow so much heat to...
by skralyx
227 comments
on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 08:57 PM PDT
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The First Law of Thermodynamics is something that comes up all the time in Science Fiction.� ...A simple formulation is: " the total energy in a system remains constant, although it may be ...
by xaxnar
151 comments
on Sun Feb 26, 2023 at 06:02 PM PST
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Most of us have conflicted feelings about artificial intelligence. Is it awesome, is it nefarious, or is it eerie? Regardless, it is increasingly understood to be very powerful. That’s been magnified recently in our everyday conversational lives with...
by skralyx
113 comments
on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 09:05 PM PST
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Practical lithium-air battery shows 3x the energy density of today's best electric-vehicle batteries Electric vehicles are great, but there’s a lot of room for improvement in the batteries they use. Same goes for energy storage associated with renewables like solar and wind. Electric cars currently use lithum-ion batteries, because they have the best...
by skralyx
197 comments
on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 09:04 PM PST
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by strawbale
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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We’re all rightly concerned about greenhouse gases, but another facet of a warming planet that sometimes gets overlooked is the increasing accumulation of acutely toxic forms of mercury in our environment and in the food chain. Mercury occurs naturally...
by skralyx
82 comments
on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 08:18 PM PST
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28 years ago the element Darmstadtium was first created in a lab.
Darmstadtium is a chemical element with the symbol Ds and atomic number 110. It is an ...
by jck
110 comments
on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 05:30 PM PST
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One of the really tough conundrums about how life got started on Earth is the “water paradox”: Liquid water is necessary for life as we know it here on Earth, and yet a lot of chainlike molecules that all living things need (like proteins, RNA, and...
by skralyx
53 comments
on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 07:30 PM PDT
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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Sharpless and Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of...
by AKALib
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on Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 05:37 PM PDT
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If there’s one thing the weight of the scientific evidence has demonstrated, it’s that cancer cells are, to a very good first approximation, little bastards. They try in various ways to pose as normal cells to evade the immune system while they grow...
by skralyx
66 comments
on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 08:00 PM PDT
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OK, I know that when Cal and Stanford come to mind, it’s hard not to think of this: (Not that Stanford hasn’t had great finishes in this series, too!) Whoever you were pulling for there, we’ll need a similarly dramatic finish if we’re to avoid the...
by skralyx
150 comments
on Sat Aug 06, 2022 at 08:57 PM PDT
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In 1952, Stanely Miller and Harold Urey placed a quantity of water, methane, ammonia and elemental hydrogen gas into a glass vessel and shot electrical sparks through it. The idea was to try to recreate the conditions of the early Earth, with the...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Nov 28, 2021 at 07:00 PM PST
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Thanks to Maura Davis at Northwestern for sending me a version of the submitted manuscript, mine among the many requests Prof. Stupp’s lab is receiving for this important study. It’s not a question of if, but when. We will enable people with spinal...
by skralyx
70 comments
on Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 07:11 PM PST
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