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News Release 4-Aug-2020

Story tips: Pandemic impact, root studies, neutrons confirm, lab on a crystal & modeling fusion

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL Story Tips: Pandemic impact, root studies, neutrons confirm, lab on a crystal and modeling fusion.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science; Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program; ORNL's Strategic Partnership Project

News Release 4-Aug-2020

NASA providing data on Tropical Storm Isaias as it blankets eastern seaboard

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropical Storm Isaias made landfall late on Aug. 3 and by today, Aug. 4, the huge storm stretched from Virginia to Maine. NASA satellites have been providing forecasters with rainfall rates, cloud top temperatures, storm extent and strength as Isaias batters the U.S. East Coast.

Funder: NASA

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Tradeoff between the eyes and nose helps flies find their niche

eLife

The size of a fly's eyes and nose reflect both its behaviour during mating and its habitat preferences, according to a new study published today in eLife.

Journal: eLife
Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Open-access funding)

News Release 4-Aug-2020

NASA infrared imagery shows Hagupit nearing landfall in China

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Aqua satellite provided a look at Typhoon Hagupit as it was nearing landfall in southeastern China.

Funder: NASA

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Between shark and ray: The evolutionary advantage of the sea angels

University of Vienna

Angel sharks are sharks, but with their peculiarly flat body they rather resemble rays. An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero and Jürgen Kriwet of the Institute of Palaeontology has now investigated the origin of this body shape. The results illustrate how these sharks evolved into highly specialised, exclusively bottom-dwelling ambush predators and thus also contribute to a better understanding of their threat from environmental changes. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Journal: Scientific Reports

News Release 4-Aug-2020

How the seafloor of the Antarctic Ocean is changing - and the climate is following suit

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic's climate history

Journal: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Increased global mortality linked to arsenic exposure in rice-based diets

University of Manchester

Rice is the most widely consumed staple food source for a large part of the world's population. It has now been confirmed that rice can contribute to prolonged low-level arsenic exposure leading to thousands of avoidable premature deaths per year.

Journal: Science of the Total Environment

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Green energy and better crops: Tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes

University of Cambridge

Researchers have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce nutritionally-superior crops simultaneously, bringing the prospect of higher incomes for farmers and maximising use of agricultural land.

Journal: Advanced Energy Materials
Funder: Leverhulme Trust, Italian Ministry of University and Research

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Photoperiod and temperature prove secondary growth resumption in northern hemisphere conifers

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

Ecologists from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified multiple exogenous factors that can affect the onset of wood formation and quantified the key drivers for secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, International Collaborative Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, and CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative

News Release 4-Aug-2020

Tracking and forecasting outbreak risk of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-transmitted diseases

Earth Institute at Columbia University

New system infuses 'R0' models with climate information to help public health agencies forecast places and times when environmental conditions might enhance transmission of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-borne diseases

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Columbia World Projects, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Energy, Swedish Research Council, National Institutes of Health

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