Category: Ecology
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Iced water. With no ice. Alchemy. Summer breeze…
Water can remain liquid below zero degrees Celsius. It is called supercooled water and is present in refrigerators. At even smaller temperatures, supercooled water could exist as a cocktail of two distinct liquids. Unfortunately, the presence of ice often prevents us from observing this phenomenon. (1) Water has got super high surface tension and apparently,…
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Nature in Balance… A lesson we choose not to know.
In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew roared through the Caribbean as a near-worst-case Category 4 storm, with high winds that devastated Haiti and other countries. But when it made landfall in the United States a few days later, Matthew limped into South Carolina as a Category 1, bringing torrential rains and flooding but little else. That…
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Climate change. Accepting…
Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past societies responded to climate change. (1) The study is trying to understand how people in the past changed the species of crops or the types of animals they bred when climate changed in the past. However,…
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Ecology: For all the wrong reasons. [Nature runs faster and the need for philosophy]
Humans always try to catch up with nature… Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was previously understood, researchers have found Therefore, they say, the rules created by the EPA to protect the lake may be inadequate to prevent algae blooms and water quality problems as the region gets hotter…
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Doing nothing. (Not intelligently…)
Artificially intelligent computer software that can learn, adapt and rebuild itself in real-time could help combat climate change. Researchers at Lancaster University's Data Science Institute have developed a software system that can for the first time rapidly self-assemble into the most efficient form without needing humans to tell it what to do. The system --…
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