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Muffins That Could Be Good for Your Health

Love muffins? We’re talking about a tasty, fluffy muffin that has no artificial additives and that simultaneously contains lots of beneficial nutrients.

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Bees Follow Linear Landmarks to Find Their Way Home, Just Like the First Pilots

In the earliest days of human flight, before the invention of the first radio beacons and ground-based electronic systems, and modern GPS, pilots commonly navigated by following roads and railways – striking linear landscape elements at ground level that guide towards a destination of interest.

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A Mixture of Trees Purifies Urban Air Best

Conifers are generally better than broadleaved trees at purifying air from pollutants.

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Countries Reach Deal to Protect Marine Life in International Waters

UN member states have forged a landmark deal to guard ocean life, charting a path to create new protected areas in international waters.

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Pioneering Study Shows Flood Risks Can Still Be Considerably Reduced if All Global Promises to Cut Carbon Emissions Are Kept

Annual damage caused by flooding in the UK could increase by more than a fifth over the next century due to climate change unless all international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, according to new research.

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An Internal Thermometer Tells the Seeds When to Germinate

A UNIGE team has discovered the mechanisms by which  the seed decides to remain in «hibernation» or to trigger its germination depending on the outside temperature.

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Methodology for Mobile Toxics Deterministic Human Health Risk Assessment and Case Study

Air toxic emissions from on-road mobile sources are significant contributors to the degradation of air quality in urban and dense population centers. Research led by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified more than 1162 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in the exhaust and evaporative emissions from on-road mobile sources.

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Sea Level Rise Poses Particular Risk for Asian Megacities

Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to new research that looks at the effects of natural sea level fluctuations on the projected rise due to climate change.

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Drones Detect Moss Beds and Changes to Antarctica Climate

Researchers have been using drones to map large areas of Antarctica this summer in efforts to monitor the effects on vegetation due to climate change with the support of the Federal Government’s Australian Antarctic Division.

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Being Sleepless in Seattle – Or Anywhere – May Spell Trouble for Your Heart

Scientific researchers have noticed a marked increase in heart attacks and strokes in the days following the change to daylight saving time each spring. 

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