A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the origin of cosmic rays is taking its second turn high above the continent of Antarctica three and a half weeks after its launch.
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Shocked Meteorites Provide Clues to Earth’s Lower Mantle
Deep below the Earth’s surface lies a thick rocky layer called the mantle, which makes up the majority of our planet’s volume.
Arabian Peninsula A Trap for Summer Dust
Intense winds blowing from Africa through a mountainous gap on the western Red Sea coast have led to a buildup of summer dust over the Arabian Peninsula in the past decade.
Gasification Goes Green
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of a major segment of the chemical industry.
Research Identifies Possible On/Off Switch for Plant Growth
New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant growth — good news for an era in which crops can get crushed by climate change.
Speech-Disrupting Brain Disease Reflects Patients' Native Tongue
English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages, according to new research by scientists at the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center and colleagues at the Neuroimaging Research Unit and Neurology Unit at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan.