Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 21, 2021

As I examined the map and zoomed in closer to the Philadelphia region, it was obvious. There was a big empty place on the map that mostly outlined Philly. The map I was looking at was one showing where Brood X of the 17-year cicadas (also called periodical cicadas) had been recorded in previous years and likely would appear this year. The map , generated by John Cooley, PhD, is based on more than 45 years of field work by Chris Simon and Cooley and also specimen records in museum collections inc

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

In an underground laboratory near Shenzhen, southern China, officials gathered on 12 December 2020 to say goodbye to a decade-old experiment that not only unveiled secrets of the neutrino but also fostered China–US scientific collaboration. A little after 10.30?a.m., Yifang Wang from the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, pressed a red button that stopped the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment from taking data.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 21, 2021

As the session runs toward adjournment on April 25, the Clean Fuels bill urgently needs your support. Urge your senator to support a strong clean fuel standard: The Clean Fuel Standard bill, HB 1091 , has passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate, but the House’s version is stronger. Conference committee members are: Rep. Fitzgibbon (D-34, West Seattle) Rep.

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

Complex quantum operations obey a “speed limit” of around 17 millimetres per second, say researchers led by physicists at the University of Bonn in Germany. The team obtained this result by working out how quickly they could transport an atom between two points while still preserving the information contained in its quantum state. The experiment, which required the team to transport the atom in a series of accelerating and decelerating sequences, could help optimize speed and accuracy in applica

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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CEQA Developments

APRIL 21, 2021

Falling more into the category of “spring cleaning” than “breaking news,” readers should note that a Second District decision, published last spring and covered in this blog, was ordered depublished by the California Supreme Court late last summer. On August 19, 2020, the Supreme Court denied review and ordered not to be officially published the opinion in Communities for a Better Environment v.

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

When most solids are heated, they melt into liquids. This behaviour makes sense in terms of entropy, or disorder: a liquid state is usually more disordered than a solid state, and higher temperatures mean that the particles within a material vibrate randomly with more energy. One exception, however, is helium-3. This isotope of helium solidifies on heating, because in its solid state, fluctuations in its atoms’ nuclear spin (or internal “rotation”) give it a higher entropy than its liquid counte

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common cause of degenerative dementia in elderly patients. Small amounts of protein – Lewy bodies – clump together within nerve cells in the brain. As a result, communication between cells is significantly reduced over time, eventually leading to cell death. There are several symptoms that lead to the diagnosis of DLB.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

On April 19, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) in response to a request from the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources regarding the oversight and decommissioning of pipelines in federal waters, which are mainly located within the Gulf of Mexico. The Report concluded that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) lacks a robust oversight process (1) for ensuring the integrity of active offshore oil and

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

Under the right conditions, the transport of electrical charges through wires with nanometre-scale thicknesses could become more efficient as disorder in the nanowire increases. This counterintuitive behaviour could be possible following a theoretical discovery made by physicists in Italy and Mexico. Nahum Chávez at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla and colleagues hope that this “disorder-enhanced transport” effect could soon be observed experimentally.

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Real Climate

APRIL 21, 2021

In the Paris Agreement, just about all of the world’s nations pledged to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. On Saturday, the top climate diplomats from the U.S. and China, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, reiterated in a joint statement that they want to step up their climate mitigation efforts to keep that goal “within reach”.

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Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

Like most people, Abigail Harrison has a big dream – to become an astronaut, and be the first person to walk on Mars. Humans are yet to set foot on the red planet (or indeed any planet beyond our own), but Harrison is on the right trajectory to do so – and her pathway to achieving this is the subject of her new book Dream Big: How to Reach for Your Stars.

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