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Highly radioactive nuclear waste – how to keep it from oblivion
Linköping UniversityReports and Proceedings
Sweden’s radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that it is there? Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have come up with a proposal for how to keep the memory alive over generations.
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- Svensk Kärnbränslehantering
New study: Eating mangos daily shown to improve insulin sensitivity and blood glucose control
Wild HivePeer-Reviewed Publication
New research finds mangos may be key to reducing insulin resistance, improving insulin sensitivity in adults who are overweight or obese, according to a newly published study from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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- Nutrients
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- National Mango Board
New GNSS technique helps pedestrians navigate skyscraper shadows
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of SciencesPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Satellite Navigation
Footprints of deep-sea mining
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)Peer-Reviewed Publication
05 March 2025/Kiel. Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes — both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are removed along with the nodules, and on the adjacent seafloor, where the sediment suspended by the mining resettles. Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR) monitored the test of an industrial pre-prototype nodule collector vehicle in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the eastern Pacific and analysed the spread of the suspended sediment plumes and the patterns of sediment redeposition in space and time. Their results have now been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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- Nature Communications
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- Joint Programming Initiative “Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans” (JPI Oceans)
Lyrebirds, famed for their mimicry, are also forest farmers, finds new research
British Ecological SocietyPeer-Reviewed Publication
The superb lyrebird, famous for its extraordinary ability to mimic practically any noise, has now been shown to be a resourceful farmer, raking the forest floor to create the ideal conditions for its invertebrate prey. The birds perform this ‘farming’ behaviour at a scale unprecedented in non-human vertebrates. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Animal Ecology.
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- Journal of Animal Ecology
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- Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment
Single-qubit sensing puts new spin on quantum materials discovery
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new measurements, published in Nano Letters, could be used to advance technologies ranging from traditional computing to the emerging field of quantum computing.
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- Nano Letters