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Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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The best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants - The Best Offense is a Great Defense for Some Carnivorous Plants      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the...

Environmental: General Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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Used concrete transformed into new bricks while trapping CO2      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have turned concrete from a demolished school building and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the...

Ecology: Trees Paleontology: Climate Paleontology: General
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Ancient pollen trapped in Greenland ice uncovers changes in Canadian forests over 800 years      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

The Greenland ice sheet lies thousands of miles from North America yet holds clues to the distant co...

Physics: Optics
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Scientists invent smallest known way to guide light      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Through a series of innovative experiments, scientists found that a sheet of glass crystal just a fe...

Biology: Botany Biology: Zoology Ecology: Animals Ecology: Endangered Species
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Contours that kill: Geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines t...

Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering: Robotics Research Offbeat: Computers and Math
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Tiny, shape-shifting robot can squish itself into tight spaces      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Imagine a robot that can wedge itself through the cracks in rubble to search for survivors trapped i ...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Space Space: Astrophysics Space: General Space: Structures and Features
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What happens when neutron stars collide?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New simulations show that hot neutrinos created at the interface of merging binary neutron stars are...

Engineering: Robotics Research
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Researchers use ultrasound waves to move objects hands-free - Researchers Use Ultrasound Waves to Move Objects Hands-Free      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have discovered a new method to move objects using ultrasound waves, opening the door fo...

Biology: Developmental Ecology: Endangered Species Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Fast electrical signals mapped in plants with new bioelectronic technology      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

What happens inside the carnivorous plant Venus Flytrap when it catches an insect? New technology ha...

Engineering: Nanotechnology Geoscience: Environmental Issues Offbeat: Earth and Climate
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Cleaning water with 'smart rust' and magnets      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers have developed special i...

Chemistry: Thermodynamics Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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A new way to capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial emissions      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Carbon capture is a promising method to help slow climate change. With this approach, carbon dioxide...

Environmental: Water Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geochemistry
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Trees struggle to 'breathe' as climate warms      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, mean ...