Whether sedimentary rocks store fossil hydrocarbons or act as impermeable layers to prevent the rise of oil, natural gas or stored carbon dioxide—all depends on their porosity. The size, shape, organization, and connectivity ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2024
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Hold your hands out in front of you, and no matter how you rotate them, it's impossible to superimpose one over the other. Our hands are a perfect example of chirality—a geometric configuration by which an object cannot ...
Soft Matter
Jan 8, 2024
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Scientists and natural resource managers from Canadian First Nations, governments, academic institutions, and conservation organizations published the first results of a unique salmon population monitoring tool in Frontiers ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2023
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) researchers have developed a new tool—the Global Migration Data Explorer—to help address the lack of data on global migration flows and provide a visual method ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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In the Western U.S., water scarcity is a pressing issue, and strikes a balance between providing flow when it is needed to support migratory fish habitats, like salmon and steelhead.
Ecology
Jul 4, 2023
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Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first detailed analysis of the domestic ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2023
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New measurements of how particles flow from collisions of different types of particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have provided new insights into the origin of the shape of hot specks of matter generated ...
General Physics
Jun 27, 2023
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Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have directly measured the fluid-like flow of electrons in graphene at nanometer resolution for the first time. The results appear in the journal Science today.
Nanophysics
Feb 16, 2023
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A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can ...
General Physics
Dec 13, 2022
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Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the lungs through the branched structure of the bronchial ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2022
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