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A First Step to Designing Better Solid-State Batteries

Electrifying transportation is an essential step towards mitigating climate change.

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New Nontoxic Powder Uses Sunlight to Quickly Disinfect Contaminated Drinking Water

At least 2 billion people worldwide routinely drink water contaminated with disease-causing microbes.

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As Plastics Keep Piling Up, Can ‘Advanced’ Recycling Cut the Waste?

Bob Powell had spent more than a decade in the energy industry when he turned his attention to the problem of plastic waste.

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Plastic Made From Sugar Cane Also Threatens the Environment

Plastic made from cane sugar also threatens the environment.

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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere

There’s an intriguing exoplanet out there – 400 light-years out there – that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009.

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NASA Researchers Detect Tsunamis by Their Rumble in the Atmosphere

New hazard-monitoring technology uses GPS signals to go wave-hunting in the Pacific Ring of Fire. 

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Ground Beneath Thwaites Glacier Mapped for First Time

The ground beneath Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier has been mapped for the first time, helping scientists to better understand how it is being affected by climate change.

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Antarctic Tipping Points – New Report

Concern is rising about tipping points in the Antarctic region (Armstrong et al., 2022). 

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Drones Fly Low and Slow for Radiation Detection

Unoccupied aerial vehicles, better known as drones, have rapidly advanced from a quirky, high-flying novelty to a versatile workhorse.

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Reduced Emissions During the Pandemic Led to Increased Climate Warming

The Covid pandemic shutdowns in South Asia greatly reduced the concentration of short-lived cooling particles in the air, while the concentration of long-lived greenhouse gases was barely affected.

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