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Climate Change Intensifies Wind-Rain Extremes in the UK and Ireland

Climate change will cause an increase in extreme winter storms combining strong winds and heavy rainfall over the UK and Ireland, new research has shown.

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Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west africa’s wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have Longbeen overlooked.

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NREL Invites Robots To Help Make Wind Turbine Blades

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product.

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Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity

A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force.

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Every Breath You Take: The Journey of Inhaled Plastic Particles

With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, a new University of Technology Sydney (UTS) study has modelled what happens when people breathe in different kinds of plastic particles and where they end up.

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Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies

A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to better predict water availability for farmers and others.

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Artificial Intelligence Enhances Monitoring of Threatened Marbled Murrelet

Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study species, research by Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service has shown.

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Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide

A new catalyst made from an inexpensive, abundant metal and common table sugar has the power to destroy carbon dioxide (CO2) gas.

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Offering Clean Energy Around the Clock

As remarkable as the rise of solar and wind farms has been over the last 20 years, achieving complete decarbonization is going to require a host of complementary technologies.

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Physicists Arrange Atoms in Extremely Close Proximity

Proximity is key for many quantum phenomena, as interactions between atoms are stronger when the particles are close.

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