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  More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt

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  A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has discovered that a marked decrease in summer cloud cover during the last 20 years has significantly accelerated melt from the Greenland ice sheet.

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  Concurrent hot and dry summers more common in future: study

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  A combination of severe drought and a heatwave caused problems for Russia in the summer of 2010: fires tore through forests and peat bogs. Moscow was shrouded in thick smog, causing many deaths in the local population. At ...

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  Analysis of Neanderthal teeth grooves uncovers evidence of prehistoric dentistry

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  Neanderthals treating toothaches?

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  Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves?

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  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence gravitational waves. In a recently ...

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  2020 deadline to avert climate catastrophe: experts

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  Humanity must put carbon dioxide emissions on a downward slope by 2020 to have a realistic shot at capping global warming at well under two degrees Celsius, the bedrock goal of the Paris climate accord, experts said Wednesday.

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  How minimizing fluid friction can make oceangoing vessels more fuel-efficient and reduce harmful emissions

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  Imagine walking from one side of a swimming pool to the other. Each step takes great effort—that's what makes water aerobics such effective physical exercise.

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  World first: New polymer goes for a walk when illuminated

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  Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To this end, they clamp a strip ...

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  Climate change impacts Antarctic biodiversity habitat

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  Ice-free areas of Antarctica - home to more than 99 per cent of the continent's terrestrial plants and animals - could expand by more than 17,000km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals.

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  The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

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  With leading corporations now investing in highly expensive and complex infrastructures to unleash the power of quantum technologies, INRS researchers have achieved a breakthrough in a light-weight photonic system created ...

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  Swimming microbots can remove pathogenic bacteria from water

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  The lack of clean water in many areas around the world is a persistent, major public health problem. One day, tiny robots could help address this issue by zooming around contaminated water and cleaning up disease-causing ...