For years, scientists determined that smoke, overall, diminishes clouds’ cooling effect by absorbing light that the clouds beneath the aerosols would otherwise reflect. This new study does not dispute that phenomenon. However, more dominantly, the new study found that smoke and cloud layers are closer to each other than previously […]
Daily Archives: March 5, 2018
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Factors most important for regulation of transpiration in young forests in Panama had to do with their ability to access water in the soil, whereas older forests were more affected by atmospheric conditions.
An team of physicists has for the first time observed so-called roton quasiparticles in a quantum gas. Empirically introduced by Landau to explain the bizarre properties of superfluid liquid Helium, these quasiparticles reflect an ‘energy softening’ in the system as precursor of a crystallization instability. The new work demonstrates similar […]
Researchers have developed a gene therapy that successfully treats a form of macular degeneration in a canine model. The work sets the stage for translating the findings into a human therapy for an inherited disease that results in a progressive loss of central vision and which is currently untreatable.
NICE Alliance A quintet of companies hopes it can make your next internet-linked security camera as smart and as adaptable as your smartphone is. The effort, announced Monday and called the Network of Intelligent Camera Ecosystem (NICE) Alliance, hopes to power cameras that can capture imagery that’s richer and more […]
The voters of Italy have not so much spoken as snarled and shouted. While Sunday’s election handed no party a clear mandate to govern, it drove home a message with sobering implications for the rest of Europe and beyond: the issue of immigrants and refugees, weaponized politically by populist firebrands […]
Sam Nunberg, a former Donald Trump campaign aide, plans to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller requesting campaign documents related to the Russia investigation, saying Monday that it would be “really funny” if he were arrested. “The president’s right, it’s a witch hunt,” Nunberg told MSNBC’s Katy’s Tur. […]
The Geneva Motor Show is a big deal. It’s the first major European show on the calendar each year, so we always expect to see a healthy turnout of new and interesting production cars and concepts. That said, 2018 promises to be a banner year even by Geneva standards. We’ll […]