- Dozens placed in quarantine after China plague death.
Part of a city in north-west China has been sealed off and dozens of
people placed in quarantine after a man died of bubonic plague, state
media say.
- Deep sea mining licences issued.
Vast new areas of the ocean floor have been opened up in an accelerating
search for valuable minerals including manganese, copper and gold.
- Bats 'fly by polarised light'.
Bats use the pattern of polarised light in the evening sky to get their bearings, according to a new study.
- EU sets 'ambitious but realistic' energy savings target.
EU member states will have to boost their energy efficiency by 30% by 2030, according to the European Commission.
- Northwest Passage voyage of scientific discovery.
A crew of sailors is embarking on a pioneering citizen science
expedition through the Northwest Passage between Canada and Greenland.
- Controlling lupus, drugs for cystic fibrosis,
HIV drugs for hepatitis C, and much more in the 23 July 2014 issue of
Science Translational Medicine.
- Offshore wind farms are turning into seal hunting grounds.
- Murderous meerkats!
A study in Nature Communications examines why female meerkats attack their daughters and kill their grandchildren.
- Sponge-like material converts sunlight into steam.
Steam generation using solar energy is
normally based on heating bulk liquid to high temperatures - but this
new material enables a markedly more efficient method.
- For decades, Europe and the United States have
led the way in particle physics, and the big discoveries have happened
at labs such as SLAC, CERN and Fermilab. But in a few years, China might
become the place to be.
- Sediments in thermokarst lakes, found in
Arctic regions, are an important carbon sink (store) that may have
offset the greenhouse gas emissions that occurred when the lakes formed.
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