Why is some plastic recycling no longer cost-effective? Blame fracking
The past couple of years of relatively cheap crude oil and natural gas has upended the industry with the greenest image: recycling.
Environment
Aug 10, 2016
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A black hole story told by a cosmic blob and bubble
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers are piecing together ...
Astronomy
Aug 10, 2016
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First report on efficient reprogramming of diabetic foot ulcer cells to create therapeutic stem cell
The potential to use a patient's own cells to treat non-healing chronic wounds - a serious complication of diabetes - took an important step forward as researchers successfully reprogrammed skin cells taken from diabetic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 10, 2016
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First validated canine behavioral genetics findings of nine fear and aggression traits in dogs
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental illness in the United States. And while much is understood about the biochemistry of anxiety, little is known about the genetic variation associated with it.
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2016
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Managing climate change refugia to protect wildlife
Results of a new study led by Toni Lyn Morelli, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Northeast Climate Science Center based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, offer a framework for ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2016
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Outburst of shooting stars up to 200 mph - meteors per hour
The heavens will be bursting with shooting stars this week.bThursday night into early Friday, the annual Perseid (PUR'-see-ihd) meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors. Scientists call this ...
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2016
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Morphological analysis of a light-controlling organ suggests two new deep-sea fish species
Two new species can be added to the bioluminescent deep-sea fish family Opisthoproctidae, or "barreleyes"—named for the fishes' tubular eyes—according to a study published August 10, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2016
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Undergraduates build star-tracking instrument for NASA research rockets
Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduates are making a "compass" for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA technology demonstration mission later this year.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2016
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Seawalls, coastal forests in Japan help reduce tsunami damage
Researchers who analyzed a history of tsunamis along the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region have learned that seawalls higher than 5 meters reduce damage and death, while coastal forests also play an important role in ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2016
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Plastic gun from 3-D printer seized at Nevada airport
Airport screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man's carry-on luggage last week at a Nevada airport in what a federal official said Wednesday might have been the first discovery ...
Engineering
Aug 10, 2016
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