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Monsoon Storms Will Bring Heavier Rains but Become Weaker

Climate change will make monsoon storms in South Asia wetter and weaker, with more storms pushing further inland across India.

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Quantum Calculations Expose Hidden Chemistry of Ice

The new theoretical research by UChicago PME and ICTP researchers has implications for melting permafrost and climate change.

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Oral Arginine Reduces Amyloid Buildup in Alzheimer’s Models

Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is one of the leading causes of dementia worldwide, and currently has no definitive cure. 

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New European Service Will Investigate Role of Warming in Weather Disasters

A new E.U. service will determine how warming is reshaping weather. Its findings, experts say, could help insurers better understand climate risks and help advocates hold polluters accountable for climate damages.

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Creating an Extension-Driven Vision for Smarter Farming

With a project list that includes machines, drones, artificial intelligence and robots, it might seem that Luan Oliveira’s research is far from the fields that support Georgia’s No. 1 industry, agriculture.

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This UW-Madison Spinoff is Making Environmentally-Friendly Cement. The Secret Ingredient is Pollution

Taken individually, coal ash and excess carbon dioxide are harmful pollutants. Combined in just the right way, they form a durable, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly building material.

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Researchers Use Living Fossils to Uncover a Wealth of Genes for Seed Improvement

Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with a powerful evolutionary genomic pipeline to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to help plants build seeds.

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The Driver of Sargassum Blooms in the Atlantic Ocean

Upwelling of phosphorus-rich deep water promotes an N-fixing symbiont of the Sargassum algae giving it a competitive advantage.

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Ultrasonic Device Dramatically Speeds Harvesting of Water From the Air

Feeling thirsty? Why not tap into the air? Even in desert conditions, there exists some level of humidity that, with the right material, can be soaked up and squeezed out to produce clean drinking water.

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A New Take on Carbon Capture

If there was one thing Cameron Halliday SM ’19, MBA ’22, PhD ’22 was exceptional at during the early days of his PhD at MIT, it was producing the same graph over and over again.

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