The accretion of new material during Pluto’s formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet’s orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
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Wildfire Smoke Has Immediate Harmful Health Effects: UBC Study
Exposure to wildfire smoke affects the body’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems almost immediately, according to new research from the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.
Rice Lab Turns Fluorescent Tags Into Cancer Killers
A Rice University lab’s project to make better fluorescent tags has turned into a method to kill tumors.
Jellyfish Contain No Calories, But They Still Attract Predators
They contain no carbohydrates.
Purifying Water With A Partly Coated Gold Nanoparticle
With a new nanoparticle that converts light to heat, a team of researchers has found a promising technology for clearing water of pollutants.
Mysterious Climate Change
New research findings underline the crucial role that sea ice throughout the Southern Ocean played for atmospheric CO2 in times of rapid climate change in the past.


