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Environment
Identifying highly skilled ensemble members could boost extreme cold forecasts in East Asia
Beijing snow and winter jasmine during the cold wave on March 18th, 2022. Credit: su jingzhi Seasonal to seasonal forecasts play an important role in the early warning of extreme weather events and disaster risk prevention, but their predictive capabilities are still limited. Extremely cold events in East Asia cause widespread disasters in the form of cold temperatures and snow,…
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Space & Cosmos
Seed-sized signal amplification chips could boost space communications
Credit: ESA-SJM Photo This tiny signal amplifier, smaller than a strawberry seed, was built by the European Space Agency to fill a gap in current technology and help enable future radar observation and communications space missions. “This integrated circuit is a low-noise amplifier with a diameter of just 1.8 x 0.9 mm,” explains ESA microwave engineer David Cuadrado-Calle. “Achieving cutting-edge…
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Biology
A pair of rare enzymes in marine microorganisms could boost carbon storage
Characteristics of cyanobacteria with multiple Rubisco types. (A) Ribosomal protein tree showing the ODZ Prochlorococcus lineage and its Rubisco. (B) Form II Rubisco gene tree showing representative AMZ IB sequences and their phylogenetic background. The tips of the trees are labeled with sequence numbers (Dataset S2). (C) Maximum carboxylation rate (kcat) of type II rubiscos reported in ref. AMZ IB…
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Nanotechnology
Manganese cathodes could boost lithium-ion battery performance
A new process for manganese-based battery materials allows researchers to use larger particles, pictured here with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: Han-Min Hau/Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used in devices such as smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles and energy storage systems, but supplies of nickel and cobalt, which are often used in the…
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