#Chemicals released into the air could become less hazardous, thanks to a missing math formula for droplets

“#Chemicals released into the air could become less hazardous, thanks to a missing math formula for droplets” Purdue researchers have figured out a way to calculate surface viscosity just by looking at a stretched droplet as it starts to break. Credit: Purdue University images/Brayden Wagoner and Osman Basaran Drones and other aircraft effectively spray pesticides…

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#Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management

“#Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management” Illustration of the TSSE (temperature swing solvent extraction) process, a pioneering desalination approach for hypersaline brines that could transform global water management. Credit: Chanhee Boo/Columbia Engineering Water security is becoming an urgent global challenge. Hundreds of millions of people already live in water-scarce regions, and the UN…

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#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded

“#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exotic Bee ID, a website created through a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Utah State University (USU) to help identify non-native bees in…

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#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet

“#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet” Courtesy Photo | The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th comet discovery. The two comets are relatively close at approximately 1 million miles apart, suggesting that they could have been…

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#Bizarre saber-tooth predator from South America was no saber-tooth cat

“#Bizarre saber-tooth predator from South America was no saber-tooth cat” Skulls and life reconstructions of the marsupial saber-tooth Thylacosmilus atrox (left) and the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis (right). Credit: Stephan Lautenschlager A new study led by researchers from the University of Bristol has shown that not all saber-tooths were fearsome predators. Saber-tooth cats, such as…

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#Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity

“#Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity” Calculated trends in geophysical PM2.5 values from 1998–2018. Warm colors indicate positive trends, cool colors indicate negative trends and the opacity of the colors indicates the statistical significance of the trends. Credit: Martin Lab It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming and find…

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#MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod, Leanchoilia illecebrosa

“#MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod, Leanchoilia illecebrosa” (A) YKLP11423, 5mm-long juvenile, ventral view; (B) YKLP11422, 7mm-long juvenile, ventral view. Credit: Javier Ortega-Hernández and Yu Liu An international collaboration between researchers at Harvard University and Yunnan University in China uses microCT to study and restudy arthropod fossils from the early Cambrian in the Chengjiang…

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#700-km Brazil ‘megaflash’ sets lightning record: UN

“#700-km Brazil ‘megaflash’ sets lightning record: UN” The UN weather agency measures lightning using satellite imagery technology The UN’s weather agency announced Thursday the longest lightning bolt on record—a single flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across more than 700 kilometers. That is equivalent to the distance between Boston and…

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