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Chewing Sugary Gum After Eating Beetroot Lowers Blood Pressure

Chewing sugar-containing gum enhances the cardiovascular benefits of nitrate-rich vegetables.

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Research Reveals Key Drivers of Heatwaves and Their Future Changes Under Climate Warming

Climate extremes such as heatwaves and droughts pose increasing threats to human safety, economies, and ecosystems in a warming climate.

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Reforestation Effects on Water Resources Depend on Global Warming Level

Planting trees is widely promoted as a natural solution to climate change. 

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Ilinois Study: How Cracks in Dry Soil Impact Moisture Evaporation

Soils that are exposed to prolonged drought often develop desiccation cracks, which impact soil properties and exacerbate moisture loss through evapotranspiration.

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A Missing Piece in Climate Models: Nature’s Own Emissions

For decades, climate scientists have issued warnings about positive global warming feedbacks, vicious cycles in the Earth system in which rising temperatures from burning fossil fuels beget more warming.

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Dead Organisms Shape the Living World Long After They Perish, Research Shows

Death casts a shadow over life, not only for people but also other animals, plants and entire ecosystems.

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Global Rice Production Nearly Doubled Despite Climate Change, Driven Largely by Human Management

Global rice production nearly doubled between the 1960s and the 2010s, despite the negative impacts of climate change, according to a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Digitization of Centuries of Canadian Weather Records Promises to Improve Climate Understanding

Researchers have uncovered and digitized nearly two million 18th and 19th century weather observations from across Canada that offer new insights into how the country’s climate has changed over time.

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Scientist Creates ‘Mini Universe’ to Measure Time Without a Clock

Combining cold-atom experiments with ideas from stochastic thermodynamics and quantum gravity offers a new lab perspective on one of physics' oldest conundrums.

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From Speed to Stability: How Ageing Changes the Way We Walk

Reasons why our walking becomes slower and more tiring with age have been uncovered by new Australian research — with findings showing the body increasingly sacrifices efficiency to stay upright.

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