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Geoscience: Earthquakes Geoscience: Landslides
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Seismic sensing reveals flood damage potential - Seismic Sensing Reveals Flood Damage Potential      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Rapidly evolving floods are a major and growing hazard worldwide. Currently, their onset and evoluti...

Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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Oil spill clean-up: Better method - Oil Spill Clean-Up: A Better Method      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Oil poses a considerable danger to aquatic life. Researchers have developed a new technology for the...

Geoscience: Volcanoes
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Risk of volcano catastrophe 'a roll of the dice', say experts - Risk of Volcano Catastrophe: A Roll of the Dice, Say Experts      (via sciencedaily.com) 

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the fa...

Physics: Acoustics and Ultrasound
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Using sound and bubbles to make bandages stickier and longer lasting - Using Sound and Bubbles to Make Bandages Stickier and Longer Lasting      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasou...

Biology: Microbiology
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease treatment shows promising early results - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Treatment Shows Promising Early Results      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A promising new treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has shown 'very encouraging' early res...

Biology: Microbiology
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Possible molecular pathway for neurodegeneration in prion diseases - Possible Molecular Pathway for Neurodegeneration in Prion Diseases      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study has shed light on the mechanisms underlying the progression of prion diseases and identi...

Biology: Microbiology
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Transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice - Transmission Risk of Familial Human Prion Diseases to Mice      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion prot...

Biology: Microbiology
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Chronic wasting disease - Chronic Wasting Disease: A Growing Threat to Wildlife and Humans      (via sciencedaily.com) 

New research summarizes the efforts in disease surveillance and risk management of chronic wasting d...

Biology: Microbiology
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The shape of infectious prions - The Shape of Infectious Prions: Understanding the Mechanisms of Prion Diseases      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Prions are unique infective agents -- unlike viruses, bacteria, fungi and other parasites, prions do...

Space: The Solar System
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Earth's atmosphere may be source of some lunar water - Earth's Atmosphere May Be the Source of Some Lunar Water      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be o...

Space: The Solar System
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Researchers enlist robot swarms to mine lunar resources - Researchers Enlist Robot Swarms to Mine Lunar Resources      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Building a base on the moon was once something out of science fiction, but now scientists are starti...

Space: Exploration
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Prototype fuel gauge for orbit - Prototype Fuel Gauge for Orbit: A Revolutionary Technology      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Liquids aren't as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allo...

Engineering: Biometric
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Researchers report quantum-limit-approaching chemical sensing chip - Researchers Report Quantum-Limit-Approaching Chemical Sensing Chip      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers are reporting an advancement of a chemical sensing chip that could lead to handheld devi...

Environmental: Ecosystems
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Disease threatens to decimate western bats - Disease Threatens to Decimate Western Bats      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A four-year study concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to m...