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Researchers 'count cars' — literally — to find a better way to control heavy traffic

Ensuring that traffic moves smoothly and without a lot of manual intervention requires automated car counting techniques, which are often tedious and…

From hot to cold: How to move objects at the nanoscale

To move a nanoparticle on the surface of a graphene sheet, you won't need a “nano-arm”: by applying a temperature difference at the ends of the membrane, the…

Update on the Larsen-C iceberg breakaway

The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month.

NASA finds moon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes'

On Earth, acrylonitrile, also known as vinyl cyanide, is useful in the manufacture of plastics. Under the harsh conditions of Saturn's largest moon, this…

NASA flights gauge summer sea ice melt in the Arctic

Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of polar ice, launched a short campaign on July 17 from Thule Air Base, in northwest Greenland. Weather permitting,…

Key to speeding up carbon sequestration discovered

Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or…

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