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Amazonian Fires Continue Shrouding South America in Smoke

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Amazonian Fires Continue Shrouding South America in Smoke

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Revealing the Intimate Lives of MASSIVE Galaxies

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Figure caption. Example distributions of the first four velocity “moments” (called v, σ, h3 and h4 ) measured from the GMOS-N IFS data for two of the MASSIVE survey galaxies. For each galaxy, the top row shows two-dimensional maps, while the bottom row shows two-sided radial profiles from Gemini/GMOS-N (magenta circles) and McDonald Observatory (green squares) data.

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Gran Canaria wildfire

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Gran Canaria wildfire.

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British built Mars rover gets the gift of sight

The panoramic camera system which will allow the UK-built Rosalind Franklin Mars rover to examine the Red Planet and search for signs of life has been installed

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PanCam was developed in Britain by scientists from UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory

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Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar caves

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Where Are New Stars Born? NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Investigate

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy SDSS J1226+2152, which is being magnified and distorted by the immense gravity of a galaxy cluster in front of it. It is one of four distant, star-forming galaxies the TEMPLATES team will study with Webb. The team chose it as an example of a galaxy that is not very dusty.

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Boreal Forest Fires Could Release Deep Soil Carbon

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The 2014 fires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned more than 7 million acres of boreal forest, mainly comprised of cone-bearing trees like these jack pines. The fires released nearly 104 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

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Amazon Rainforest Absorbing Less Carbon Than Expected

New study finds that insufficient nutrient supply has not been properly accounted for in ecosystem models

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View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant water fluxes, leaf characteristics, and growth.

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GRACE-FO Shows the Weight of Midwestern Floods

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North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising the Great Lakes to record levels.

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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.

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A battery-free underwater “piezoelectric” sensor invented by MIT researchers transmits data by absorbing or reflecting sound waves back to a receiver, where a reflected wave decodes a 1 bit and an absorbed wave decodes a 0 bit — and simultaneously stores energy.