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Four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2015. (Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.) Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of a category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events. In Hawaiʻi, model simulations show a doubling of the risk of landfalling tropical cyclones, if CO2 concentrations double. That’s according to a study published in Malte Stuecker, assistant professor of oceanography in the U...

University of Hawaiʻi Four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2015. (Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.) Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of a category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events. In Hawaiʻi, model simulations show a doubling of the risk of landfalling tropical cyclones, if CO2 concentrations double. That’s according to a study published in Science Advances and co-authored by Mal...

 E-Mail IMAGE: (a) Outline of the novel iridium based catalysts access to carbocation intermediates, which achieves both high regioselectivity (>95%) and enantioselectivity (>98%). (b) Computational modeling for proving the intermediacy of carbocation... view more  Credit: IBS Human civilization in the 21st century is largely sustained by modern chemical technologies. The raw materials used in the manufacturing of a wide range of products, from clothing to plastics and pharmaceuticals...

India will witness more destructive cyclones in future, a new study has shown. According to The Weather Channel, the storms making landfall in the country could be more and more "destructive". This year, India braved a number of cyclones including Amphan, Nisarga, Nivar, and Burevi.  In its report, The Weather Channel said that the overall number of tropical storms is likely to decrease as the globe continues to warm. These projections from South Korean researchers are based on one of t...

Seoul National University researchers build a non-volatile magnetic memory prototype. Researchers at Seoul National University (South Korea) have developed the first prototype of a non-volatile magnetic memory device entirely based on a nanometer-thin layered material, which can be tuned with a tiny current. Published in Advanced Materials, this finding opens up a new window of exciting opportunities for future energy-efficient magnetic memories based on spintronics. In our current computers,...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Plastic waste can contaminate water supply as it breaks down into microplastics and its additives leach out. These additives sometimes contain harmful chemicals which accumulate in the environment and in... view more  Credit: Seung-Kyu Kim from Incheon National University Plastic pollution has been at the center of environmental debate for decades. While it is well-known that plastic in the environment can break down into microplastics, be ingested by humans and other o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Schematic representation of Fe3GeTe2-based non-volatile memory prototype. Fe3GeTe2 is a ferromagnet, where its spins (little white arrows) align in the same direction. The orientation of the spins defines 1 or... view more  Credit: POSTECH & SNU Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Seoul National University in South Korea have demonstrated a new way to enhance the energy efficiency of a non-volatile magnetic memory device called SOT-M...