#Study finds elevated soil lead levels in formerly industrial residential NYC neighborhoods

“#Study finds elevated soil lead levels in formerly industrial residential NYC neighborhoods” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the past 20 years, many areas within New York City have transitioned from industrial and manufacturing zones to residential neighborhoods. This brings families with young children to areas with a legacy of historic lead contamination in the soil….

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#TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world

“#TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world” Illustration shows how planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. Over the course of a single orbit, the planet twice experiences cycles of heating and cooling caused by the star’s unusual pattern of surface temperatures. Between the star’s hot poles and cool equator, temperatures vary by about…

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#World’s widest graphene nanoribbon promises the next generation of miniaturized electronics

“#World’s widest graphene nanoribbon promises the next generation of miniaturized electronics” (a) Bottom-up synthesis scheme of 17-AGNR on Au(111), (b) high-resolution STM image, and (c) nc-AFM image of 17-AGNR. Credit: Junichi Yamaguchi, Yasunobu Sugimoto, Shintaro Sato, Hiroko Yamada With literally the thickness of one carbon atom and electrical properties that can surpass those of standard…

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#Vandals scrawl anti-cop graffiti across lower Manhattan courthouse

“#Vandals scrawl anti-cop graffiti across lower Manhattan courthouse” June 30, 2020 | 12:42pm Enlarge Image Hundreds of Occupy City Hall demonstrators awaiting the legislator’s budget vote to cut the NYPD annual budget by $1 billion. Paul Martinka Vandals attacked a lower Manhattan courthouse early Tuesday, spray-painting anti-cop vitriol across its front. “Euthanize Swine,” “You f–k…

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#Scientists develop N-doped self-cleaning membranes that use visible light irradiation

“#Scientists develop N-doped self-cleaning membranes that use visible light irradiation” Schematic diagram of N-TiO2 and TiO2 coated membrane preparation and mechanism of visible-light-activated photocatalysis for fouling mitigation. Credit: ZHANG Huiru Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S. have recently employed atomic…

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