Deep below the Earth’s surface lies a thick rocky layer called the mantle, which makes up the majority of our planet’s volume.
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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.
Water Governance: Could Less Sometimes Be More?
Researchers from UNIGE and UNIL analysed water governance in six European countries from 1750 onwards. They demonstrated that there has been an inflationary trend in the number of regulations, and that – far from improving the situation – this has led to serious malfunctions in the system.
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.