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During cold-start, a car engine emits far more particulate matter and other pollutants than during warm conditions. This is because a cold catalytic converter...
Hearing hybrid and electric vehicles while quieting noise pollution
Low-emission vehicles are considered too quiet for hearing-impaired pedestrians, so the European Union is mandating that they be equipped with acoustic vehicle alerting systems....
How ant colonies behave in different environments
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Despite city tree benefits, California urban canopy cover per capita lowest in US
Trees in California communities are working overtime. From removing carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air, intercepting rainfall and increasing property values, California's 173.2...
Trickle-down is the solution (to the planetary core formation problem)
Scientists have long pondered how rocky bodies in the solar system -- including our own Earth -- got their metal cores. According to new...
The Patterns of climate change
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Understanding the climate impact of natural atmospheric particles
Scientists have quantified the relationship between natural sources of particles in the atmosphere and climate change. Their research shows that the cooling effect of...
Invasive plants have unprecedented ability to pioneer new continents and climates
It's no secret that globalization, aided by climate change, is helping invasive species gain a foothold across the planet. What came as something of...
Chance record of an annual mass emergence of enigmatic mantis-flies
Being neither mantids nor flies, the peculiar mantis-flies are in fact predatory lacewings which use their mantis-like forelegs to catch prey. While most mantis-flies...
Beetles’ bright colors used for camouflage instead of warning off predators
Biologists have discovered that the bright color patterns of beetles are not a warning signal to predators as previously believed, but actually a form...
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