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In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc’s power.

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Clearcutting Can Lead to Severe Floods, But It Doesn’t Have To

It has long been understood that clearcutting forests leads to more runoff, worsening flooding.

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Ice Recovered from European Alps Holds 12,000-Year Record of History

Glacial ice offers a detailed record of the atmosphere, preserved in discrete layers, providing researchers with a valuable tool for studying planetary history.

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Self-driving Lab: AI and Automated Biology Combine to Improve Enzymes

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes — and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.

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Scientists Uncover DNA Secrets to Bolster Corn Crop Traits

Innovative technology allows new insights for Rutgers researchers.

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Scientists Develop Deep-blue LEDs Expected to Greatly Enhance General Lighting

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission at ~450 nm) in a light-emitting diode (LED), an energy-efficient device at the heart of all major lighting systems.

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Seaweed-infused Cement Could Cut Concrete’s Carbon Footprint

The modern world is built with concrete: Humans use more concrete annually than any other material besides water. Yet cement, the key component of concrete, is the source of as much as 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

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Merging AI and Underwater Photography to Reveal Hidden Ocean Worlds

The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific storytelling by building on field-based photographic data.

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Lightning Kills 320 Million Trees Yearly. With Warming, the Toll Could Rise

A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought.

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New Study Points to Skagerrak as Nursery Area for the Enigmatic Greenland Shark

The Greenland shark – the world's longest-living vertebrate – is most often associated with cold Arctic waters. 

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