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Do you favor hotels that ask you to reuse your towels?
Posted: October 2, 2015Hotels across the globe are increasingly encouraging guests to embrace green practices. Yet while guests think they are supporting the environment by shutting off lights and reusing towels, they may…
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Cancer drug found to sharpen memory, potential for Alzheimer's treatment
Posted: October 2, 2015Can you imagine a drug that would make it easier to learn a language, sharpen your memory and help those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by rewiring the brain and…
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New Sensor Tag Technology Could Link Animal Behavior and Conservation Science
Posted: October 2, 2015For wild sockeye salmon, the trip upriver from the ocean to their spawning grounds is fraught with peril and hardship. But quantifying exactly how obstacles along the way, fluctuations in…
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Can Climate Change alter the shape of the Earth?
Posted: October 1, 2015Climate change is causing more than just warmer oceans and erratic weather. According to scientists, it also has the capacity to alter the shape of the planet.
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Heat waves hit heat islands the hardest
Posted: October 1, 2015Extreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will return, especially as the planet…
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The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal and it's potential impact on VW owners
Posted: October 1, 2015Out of the 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads, the impending recall at Volkswagen will involve just a half-million of them. But VW's emissions cheating scandal is receiving outsize attention…
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New water-tracing technology helps protect groundwater
Posted: September 30, 2015UNSW Australia researchers have used new water-tracing technology in the Sydney Basin for the first time to determine how groundwater moves in the different layers of rock below the surface.The…
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Background Ozone is a Major Issue on US West Coast
Posted: September 30, 2015Levels of "background ozone" — ozone pollution present in a region but not originating from local, human-produced sources — are high enough in Northern California and Nevada that they leave…
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Making batteries with portabella mushrooms
Posted: September 30, 2015Can portabella mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering think so.
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NASA Confirms Water Flows on Mars
Posted: September 29, 2015New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of…
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