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Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Concern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought in recorded history. According to state's Department of Water Resources, supplies ...


Pickleweed tolerates irrigation with seawater and high levels of boron

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Reuse of agricultural drainage water (DW) for irrigation is one of the few on-farm water management options available to growers on the west side of California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV) for reducing drainage water volumes ...





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Researchers identify a scaffold regulating protein disposal

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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How does a cell manage to identify and degrade the diverse types of defective proteins and thus protect the body against serious diseases? The researchers Sabine C. Horn, Professor Thomas Sommer, Professor Udo Heinemann and ...


New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...


Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...


Vermicompost from pig manure grows healthy hibiscus

Space & Earth / Environment

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vermicomposting, the practice of using earthworms to turn waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer, can be an economical, organic waste management practice. During vermicomposting, earthworms and microorganisms stabilize organic ...


Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (14) | comments 2

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created 22 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Sucking Up To Survive

Sucking Up To Survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale.


The Meandering Channels of Mars

The Meandering Channels of Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth.


Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Biology / Ecology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...



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