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A Step Toward Harnessing Clean Energy From Falling Rainwater

When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. 

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Farm Robot Autonomously Navigates, Harvests Among Raised Beds

Autonomous driving algorithm for robot using lidar shows promise with high-bed cultivation methods.

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Birdsong May Help Find a Mate

In birds, singing behaviours play a critical role in mating and territory defence.

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New Study Reveals How to Make Prescribed Forest Fires Burn Safer and Cleaner

Scientists estimate that tweaking some burn conditions could cut cancer risks from smoke exposure by over 50%.

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AI Finds New Ways to Observe the Most Extreme Events in the Universe

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. 

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Scalable Graphene Membranes: A Leap for Carbon Capture

Scientists at EPFL have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide.

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Making Desalination More Eco-Friendly: New Membranes Could Help Eliminate Brine Waste

Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.

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Colombia’s Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change. But First We Have to Find Them.

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the tropics for almost a decade. 

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Inactive Components in Agricultural Runoff May Be Hidden Contributors to Drinking Water Hazards

Inactive ingredients in agricultural, pharmaceutical and other common products have typically been excluded from consideration as potential contaminants in drinking water.

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Can Citizen Science Be Trusted? New Study of Birds Shows It Can

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect?

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