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Landscapes give latitude to 2-D material designers

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Aug 9 2017

Researchers predict and experimentally confirm that two-dimensional materials grown onto a cone allows control over where defects appear. These defects, called grain boundaries, can be used to enhance the materials' electronic, mechanical, catalytic and optical properties.

Exposure to antimicrobials during development may cause irreversible outcomes

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Aug 9 2017

Exposure to environmental levels of triclocarban (TCC), an antibacterial chemical common in personal care products like soaps and lotions as well as in the medical field, can transfer from mother to offspring and interfere with lipid metabolism, new research shows.

Starbucks' Latest Frappuccino 'Inspired' by Horchata Drinks

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Aug 9 2017
  1. Starbucks' Latest Frappuccino 'Inspired' by Horchata Drinks  NBC4 Washington

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  2. Lunar dynamo's lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years

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    Aug 9 2017

    Astronomers report that a lunar rock collected by NASA's Apollo 15 mission exhibits signs that it formed 1 to 2.5 billion years ago in the presence of a relatively weak magnetic field of about 5 microtesla. That's around 10 times weaker than Earth's current magnetic field but still 1,000 times larger than fields in interplanetary space today.

    Ancient pottery reveals insights on Iroquoian population's power in 16th century

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    Aug 9 2017

    An innovative study demonstrates how decorations on ancient pottery can be used to discover new evidence for how groups interacted across large regions.

    The color of people's clothing affects lizard escape behavior

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    Aug 9 2017

    The color of T-shirts people wear affects escape behavior in western fence lizards, according to a new study.

    Human bones may have been engraved as part of a cannibalistic ritual

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    Aug 9 2017

    Human bones may have been engraved as part of a cannibalistic ritual during the Paleolithic period, according to a new study.

    Environmental policy, pollution and economic growth

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    Aug 9 2017

    Air pollution policy reduces the extent to which population growth in metropolitan areas results in increased pollution emissions without disrupting the economic growth from this urbanization, new research shows.

    Rain increases joint pain? Google suggests otherwise

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    Aug 9 2017

    New research indicates that weather conditions in 45 US cities are indeed associated with Google searches about joint pain. But it might not be the association you'd expect. The findings suggest that people's activity level -- increasing as temperatures rise, to a point -- is likelier than the weather itself to spur online searches about knee and hip pain, the investigators say.

    Chaotic magnetic field lines may answer the coronal heating problem

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    Aug 9 2017

    It is known that the sun's corona is roughly 100 times hotter than its photosphere -- the sun's visible layer. The reason for this mysterious heating of the solar coronal plasma, however, is not yet entirely understood. A research team in India has developed a set of numerical computations to shed light on this phenomenon, and present this week in Physics of Plasmas, analysis examining the role of chaotic magnetic fields in potential heating mechanisms.