#Study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

“#Study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres” An artist’s rendering of L98-59b, a planet spotted in another star system which may have an atmosphere. Two scientists simulated thousands of such planets to better understand how atmospheres form. Credit: Chris Smith—NASA Goddard Space Flight Center When telescopes became powerful enough to find planets orbiting distant stars,…

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#How to keep supply chains moving during a catastrophe

“#How to keep supply chains moving during a catastrophe” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management have developed a new framework to make supply chains more resilient during a crisis like COVID-19. Recently published in IEEE Engineering Management Journal, the study analyzed how consumer panic buying and hoarding led…

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#New research finds graphene can act as surfactant

“#New research finds graphene can act as surfactant” Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research into graphene flakes has discovered that the material can act as a surfactant, for the first time demonstrating how it can be a versatile 2-D stabiliser ideal for many industrial applications from oil extraction to paper processing. Pristine graphene is completely…

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#Bird brain scientists find link between chicken behavior and epigenetics

“#Bird brain scientists find link between chicken behavior and epigenetics” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “Bird-brain” is a term used to describe someone scatty, indecisive, forgetful. But in an innovative new study published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology—Part D: Genomics and Proteomics , researchers found that the behavior of chickens is far from random. In fact,…

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#Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

“#Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits” by Cutler J Cleveland, Alicia Zhang, Jacqueline Ashmore and Taylor Dudley, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2020/teleworkmost.jpg” data-sub-html=”A number of occupations are not suited for telework and are not distributed evenly across the U.S. population. Credit: Cutler Cleveland/Boston University, CC BY” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/teleworkmost.jpg”> <figure><img…

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#First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star

“#First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star” The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more…

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#Powerful quake jolts Alaska towns, produces small tsunami

“#Powerful quake jolts Alaska towns, produces small tsunami” A powerful earthquake located off Alaska’s southern coast jolted some coastal communities late Tuesday, and some residents briefly scrambled for higher ground over fears of a tsunami. There were no immediate reports of damage in the sparsely populated area of the state, and tsunami warning was canceled…

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