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The carbon offset market: Leveraging forest carbon's value in the Brazilian Amazon
(Dartmouth College) As companies seek and are required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the world's carbon markets are expanding. A government-run program in the Amazon rainforest in northwestern Brazil transforms forest carbon value in...
Squeezed nanocrystals: A new model predicts their shape when blanketed under graphene
(DOE/Ames Laboratory) In a collaboration between the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal nanocrystals or 'islands' sandwiched betwee...
Tailoring lactation education to the cultural needs of orthodox Jewish families
(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) In a new article published in The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, nurse researchers examine Orthodox Jewish practices related to the provision of human milk and breastfeeding for a sick newbo...
Unjamming the genome after DNA damage
(Penn State) A protein complex that is involved in nearly every step in the regulatory control of gene expression in cells has now been shown also to play a key role in clearing potential traffic jams in the production of RNA.
Successful test of the MONSTER spectrometer provided new nuclear structure information
(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) A landmark experiment recently took place in the Accelerator Laboratory of the Department of Physics (JYFL-ACCLAB) at University of Jyväskylä. Through nuclear fission, a beam of the short-lived nuclide...
States Target Potent Greenhouse Gases in Absence of Federal Action
The push to restrict hydrofluorocarbons is one of the clearest examples of states banding together on climate policy-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
(<em>Grey's</em>) Anatomy of an Opioid Crisis
The popular medical drama gets it right—with a little romance on the side, naturally-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Some U.S. Cities Saw 70 Degree F Temperature Swings between January and February
The polar vortex struck in January, giving Chicago a brief blast of Arctic weather -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Machines That Read Your Brain Waves
How to make sure noninvasive neural interfaces stay that way-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites
An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration)
CEO is a veteran of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — and in a s...