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How Climate Change Could Be Affecting Your Brain

A new element of the catastrophic impacts of climate change is emerging – how global warming is impacting the human brain.

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Aerosols: When Scents Influence Our Climate

One of the great unknowns in climate models is the behavior of certain gases that often smell strongly and cause water to condense. 

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RMIT Study Suggests Link Between Feral Horses and Peatland Carbon Emissions

A ground-breaking new study by RMIT has found carbon emissions from Australian alpine peatlands to be much higher in areas disturbed by feral horses.

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Scientists Develop Faster, Cheaper Way to Count Microbes, Discover New Antibiotics

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works as much as 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use more than 15-fold and substantially decreases the cost and carbon footprint of biomedical research.

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Researchers Advance Lithium-Metal Batteries, Paving the Way for Safer, More Powerful Devices

The boom in phones, laptops and other personal devices over the last few decades has been made possible by the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery, but as climate change demands more powerful batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale renewable storage, lithium-ion technology might not be enough.

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Solar-Powered Device Produces Clean Water and Clean Fuel at the Same Time

A floating, solar-powered device that can turn contaminated water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world, has been developed by researchers.

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Diverse Forests Hold Huge Carbon Potential, as Long as We Cut Emissions

New study estimates that natural forest recovery could capture approximately 226 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, but only if we also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Designing Cities for 21st-Century Weather

Well-designed urban land patterns can reduce population exposures to weather extremes.

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How Mega-Floods can be Predicted

When floods are predicted only on the basis of local data, there may be unpleasant surprises. 

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NASA’s Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416.

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