A patch of the Gulf of Maine turned hot pink: scientists poured 16,500 gallons of lye into the sea to help it absorb CO2

The experiment, conducted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as part of the LOC-NESS project (Locking Ocean ...
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Metal surface bonds reach far beyond the atoms a molecule touches

Researchers show that chemical bonds on platinum surfaces are influenced by structural features up to roughly 10 nanometers ...
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Heavy Grazing Reshapes Desert Steppe Soil Microbes, With Deepest Layers Hit Hardest

A three-year study in Inner Mongolia's desert steppe finds that heavy grazing suppresses plant biomass by up to 86 percent ...

Machine learning helps track semiconductor defects under more realistic temperature conditions

All materials contain inherent defects. These are not always harmful, since they can be used to engineer and introduce ...

How eggs protect chromosome connections during prolonged dormancy

Eggs follow a very different developmental path from sperm. Once a male hits puberty, sperm cells are produced continuously ...