Vietnam seizes 5 tonnes of pangolin scales from Nigeria
Vietnam police have seized more than five tonnes of pangolin scales stashed in a cashew shipment from Nigeria, the government said Friday. …read more
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Facebook plans cryptocurrency launch next year: BBC
Facebook has been in contact with US and British financial regulators with a view to launching its own cryptocurrency next year, the BBC reported on Friday. …read more
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A ‘silver bullet’ for the chemical conversion of carbon dioxide
Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of modern societies, but their increased use releases carbon dioxide, a climate-warming greenhouse gas, faster than plants can recycle it via photosynthesis. …read more
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Lithium doesn’t crack under pressure, it transforms
Using cutting-edge theoretical calculations performed at NERSC, researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have predicted fascinating new properties of lithium—a light alkali metal that has intrigued scientists for two decades with its remarkable diversity of physical states at high pressures. …read more
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A novel synchrotron technique for studying diffusion in solids
Understanding and controlling how the diffusion process works at the atomic scale is an important question in the synthesis of materials. For nanoparticles, the stability, size, structure, composition, and atomic ordering are all dependent on position inside the particle, and diffusion both affects all of these properties and is affected by them. A more thorough understanding of the mechanisms and effects of diffusion in nanocrystals will help to develop controlled synthesis methods to obtain the particular properties; however, conventional methods for studying diffusion in solids all have limitations. …read more
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Scientists discover ancient seawater preserved from the last Ice Age
Twenty thousand years ago, in the thick of an Ice Age, Earth looked very different. Because water was locked up in glaciers hundreds of feet thick, which stretched down over Chicago and New York City, the ocean was smaller—shorelines extended hundreds of miles farther out, and the remaining water was saltier and colder. …read more
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Demographer addresses federal report on U.S. birthrate
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual report on the U.S. birthrate delivered some sobering news when it was released on May 15. …read more
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Why Sydney residents use 30% more water per day than Melburnians
This week Melbourne’s water storage dropped below 50 percent, a sign of the prolonged and deepening drought gripping eastern Australia. Sydney is only marginally better off, at 53.8 percent of full storage. …read more
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Dolphin study reveals the genes essential for species’ survival
UNSW scientists have added to the growing body of research into genetic markers that are important for animal conservation. …read more
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Solving geothermal energy’s earthquake problem
On a November afternoon in 2017, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook Pohang, South Korea, injuring dozens and forcing more than 1,700 of the city’s residents into emergency housing. Research now shows that development of a geothermal energy project shoulders the blame. …read more
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