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Increasing the Performance and Useful Service Life of Lithium Batteries in Renewable Energy Facilities

Variations in power generation using renewable sources, such as solar and wind power, lead to control problems in the electricity grid. The technology of lithium batteries is a candidate offering great potential in solving these problems. An industrial engineer at the Public University of Navarre (NUP/UPNA) has come up with a new management system that allows good performance of these batteries to be achieved and their useful service life to be preserved when they are connected to a renewable facility for the purposes of storing the electrical power produced.

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Global Trade in Exotic Pets Threatens Endangered Parrots Through the Spread of a Virus

Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) in wild parrot populations has been detected in eight new countries, raising concerns for threatened species.

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The Nocturnal Pollinators: Scientists Reveal the Secret Life of Moths

Scientists have discovered that moths may play a much broader role as plant pollinators than previously suspected.

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Hardwired for Laziness? Tests Show the Human Brain Must Work Hard to Avoid Sloth

If getting to the gym seems like a struggle, a University of British Columbia researcher wants you to know this: the struggle is real, and it’s happening inside your brain.

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Zika Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Deadly Brain Cancer

An international team of researchers has successfully deployed a Zika virus vaccine to target and kill human glioblastoma brain cancer stem cells, which had been transplanted into mice. In a study published this week in mBio®, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, the team shows that a live, attenuated version of the Zika virus could form the basis of a new treatment option for this fatal brain cancer. 

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Drugs That Stop Mosquitoes Catching Malaria Could Help Eradicate the Disease

Researchers have identified compounds that could prevent malaria parasites from being able to infect mosquitoes, halting the spread of disease.

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Shift in Large-Scale Atlantic Circulation Causes Lower-Oxygen Water to Invade Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence

The Gulf Stream and Labrador Current both split near the Laurentian Channel, a deep channel within the Gulf of St. Lawrence fed by both currents. The Gulf Stream in turn is sensitive to changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

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Searching for Clues on Extreme Climate Change

Researchers found signs of increased air mass transport from the North Atlantic.

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Catastrophic Construction: Storms Can Build Reef Islands in Atoll Regions

As global temperatures increase, some scientists suggest that such storms will become more frequent and intense over the next few decades.

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Tropics are Widening as Predicted by Climate Models

Scientists have observed for years that the Earth's tropics are widening in connection with complex changes in climate and weather patterns.

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