Perfect ‘pathogen’ storm: Vibrio bacteria, Sargassum and plastic marine debris
A new study uncovers how the interplay between Sargassum spp., plastic marine debris and Vibrio bacteria creates the perfect “pathogen” ...
Tag: debris
Coastal species persist on high seas on floating plastic debris
The high seas have been colonized by a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species, which can now survive and ...
DART impact provided real-time data on evolution of asteroid’s debris
When asteroids suffer natural impacts in space, debris flies off from the point of impact. The tail of particles that ...
Hubble captures movie of DART asteroid impact debris
Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...
New modelling study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources
Vast amounts of plastic debris accumulate on beaches across the Seychelles and other small island developing states. Observational analysis (for ...
What triggers flow fluctuations in heavy-ion collision debris?
UPTON, NY—Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven ...
Oldest planetary debris in our galaxy found from new study
Credit: Credit: University of Warwick/Dr Mark Garlick New study led by University of Warwick puts an age to faint ...
After the debris flow
The catastrophic debris flow that affected Montecito, Calif., in early January, 2018 was the result of a rare confluence of ...
Scientists on the hunt for planetary formation fossils reveal unexpected eccentricities in nearby debris disk
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at ...
The European Innovation Council supports E.T. PACK-Fly, a project to mitigate space debris
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, ...
Substance derived from tire debris is toxic to two trout species, not just coho salmon
Every time it rains, fish living downstream of storm drains are exposed to pollutants, including the tire-derived compound 6PPD-quinone, in ...
Can reactor fuel debris be safely removed from Fukushima Daiichi?
Highly radioactive fuel debris remains in the reactors. Credit: Satoshi Utsunomiya Highly radioactive fuel debris remains in the reactors. Decommissioning ...
Future trillion dollar ‘space economy’ threatened by debris, WVU researcher says
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush ...
Tiny grains, severe damage: Hypervelocity dust impacts on a spacecraft produce plasma explosions and debris clouds
PITTSBURGH—The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, NASA’s newest and most ambitious effort to study the sun, has broken a lot of ...
Life’s a beach: Finding trends in marine debris across Australia
Plastic is 84 per cent of all rubbish found across Australian beaches, a UNSW-led study based on one of the ...
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Schrödinger’s cat makes better qubits
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The problems with coal ash start smaller than anyone thought
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‘Revolutionary’ research discovers new cause of cancer coming from inside us
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Nearly 70% of private label avocado oil rancid or mixed with other oils
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Taurine may be a key to longer and healthier life
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Researchers find an immune system ‘trip wire’ that detects COVID-19