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Environment
How safe is the air? I don’t know about 50 million people in the US
County level presence of monitoring sites. Counties with active monitoring sites in 2024 will be presented in green, while counties classified as surveillance deserts will be presented in white. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). doi:10.1073/pnas.2425310122 In 2024, more than 50 million U.S. people lived in the county, according to a new study from researchers in Pennsylvania…
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Environment
“Climate Farm” Strategy Faces Hurdles: Research reveals the potential for limited carbon capture within safe limits
Optimized global distribution of biomass plantations maximizes carbon dioxide removal. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02033-6 Plant rapidly growing crops, burn them, capture and store released CO2. This is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 degrees in the long term. However, if this is done on…
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Environment
How to treat watershed water so it is safe to drink
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most of us are lucky to have clean, safe, high-quality water when we turn on the tap. But a Senate inquiry into the presence of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” has put drinking water safety back in the spotlight. Independent senator Lydia Thorpe, who is leading the investigation, said elders in the Aboriginal community of Wreck Bay,…
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Other Sciences
Researchers seek ‘safe haven’ for scientific collaboration as geopolitical tensions rise
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new article highlights the need for a ‘safe haven’ for researchers amid rising geopolitical tensions. A prime example of this is the history of IIASA, which was established as a neutral site during the Cold War. In a commentary published in the journal Nature, U.S. and Chinese researchers discuss the fraying of political relations between…
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Chemistry
A cleaner vision: Research supporting safe and sustainable foam
Procter & Gamble scientists used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to create a digital model of the corneal epithelium, the main outer layer of cells that coat the human eye, and then applied the model to a series of cleaning products. We tested it against the environment to find a gentler and more environmentally friendly formulation. Credit: Procter & Gamble Anyone who…
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