Science

New Recipes for Taking Salt Out of Seawater

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The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination...

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Siberian Smoke Heading Towards U.S. and Canada

Fires in the Siberian area of Russia are usually quite severe by this time of year and 2019 is no exception. This NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP image taken on July 30, 2019 shows dozens to hundreds of fires burning across a large expanse of this mostly...

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Siberian wildfires

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Siberian wildfires.

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Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

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M2 Coating Completed

If shiny things get your attention, prepare to be dazzled by the newly coated LSST Secondary Mirror (M2)! The mirror received its first reflective coating on July 16, 2019, at the LSST summit facility building on Cerro Pachón. The 3.4-meter M2 mirror...

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A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

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A model of the stars in the GD-1 stellar stream overlaid on data collected by the Gaia spacecraft. The color of each stat...

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Transforming biology to design next-generation computers, using a surprise ingredient: Purdue University researchers turned to biology to help in the design of next-generation computers

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A Purdue University group has found ways of transforming structures that occur naturally in cell membranes to create other architectures,...

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Technologies for the Sixth Generation Cellular Network: Ultra-rapid Electro-optical Modulators Convert Terahertz into Optical Data Signals - Publication in Nature Photonics

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Seamless integration of wireless transmission lines into glass-fiber networks results in high-performance data networks. A detailed...

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