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The Underground Hydrogen Rush: A Cheap Green Fuel or Just a Pipe Dream?
20 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For most of the past century, the idea that...
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The Virtual Biotech: When 37,000 AI Agents Go Drug Hunting
19 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
Drug discovery has always been a numbers game....
Ancient Architects: How Bizarre Microbes Are Rewriting the Story of Complex Life
18 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
When Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres...
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More than half of the lakes around the world are loosing water
Posted on 26 June, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary: A recent study found that 53 percent of the greatest freshwater lakes on earth are in decline and are now retaining less water than they did thirty years ago. The study measured changes in water levels in roughly 2,000 of the largest lakes and reservoirs in the globe using satellite measurements spanning decades. It was discovered that human consumption, sedimentation, and climate change are to blame .
However, the lead author, former CIRES visiting fellow and current climate...
AI discovers flora's hidden characteristics to aid save species
Posted on 4 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:To research and mitigate the effects of climate change on flora, scientists from UNSW and the Sydney Botanic Gardens have trained AI to access data from millions of plant specimens maintained in herbaria around the world.
Associate Professor Will Cornwell, the study's principal author, adds that herbarium collections are incredible "time capsules of plant specimens." It's no longer feasible to go through items manually because the National Herbarium of New South Wales alone...
Climate change, causing oceans to become more green
Posted on 16 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
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More than half of the world's oceans have become greener over the past 20 years, likely due to global warming. This was determined by analyzing 20 years of data on ocean color from NASA's Aqua satellite.
The greening indicates increased phytoplankton and algae in the surface waters. Phytoplankton contain chlorophyll which makes the ocean appear greener.
The tropical and subtropical waters between 40°S and 40°N latitude changed the most in color. These areas...
The Underground Hydrogen Rush: A Cheap Green Fuel or Just a Pipe Dream?
Posted on 20 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For most of the past century, the idea that hydrogen gas could be sitting underground in commercially viable deposits simply did not register as a possibility worth entertaining. Geologists knew the Earth produces hydrogen constantly through reactions between iron-rich rock and water, and through the splitting of water molecules by radioactive decay. They also knew that microbes eat it, that geochemical reactions consume it, and that its molecules are small enough to slip through rock...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 21 September.
- great fire in NY
- 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Penn
- 1st French Republic declared
- 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
- Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put outs ties the record
- 1st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary)
- Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention the flashbulb
- the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
- Yanks set dubious record stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500 foot plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
- Perry Mason premiers
- 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours landed Dallas Texas
- Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no hits Yankees 1-0
- Malta gains independence from Britain
- Monday Night Football on ABC premiers - Jets vs Browns
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono were Dick Cavett's only guest
- Diana Sands dies at 39
- US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
- Jaqueline Susann dies at 53
- Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
- Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
- Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition - 1st hockey in Meadowlands
- SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs