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Superefficient solar desalination

System harnesses waste heat to produce enough drinkable water for an adult in one hour




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Corteva to stop making the insecticide chlorpyrifos




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Chemistry class participates in ACS Member-get-a-Member program




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Plant used in traditional Chinese medicine is a source of natural insecticides

Symbiotic bacteria living in plant stems produce compounds that kill aphids




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Superefficient solar desalination

System harnesses waste heat to produce enough drinkable water for an adult in 1 h




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Periodic Graphics: Cannabidiol, medicine from hemp

Chemical educator and <i>Compound Interest</i> blogger Andy Brunning explains the CBD craze, how the compound works, and how it's regulated.




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Star-shaped particles ferry medicine through the skin's barrier

Titanium-dioxide stars lance the skin with microscopic holes to allow medicine through




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EPA overhauls pesticide biological evaluations

Agency's approach for assessing risks to endangered species relies on real-world data




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EPA overhauls pesticide biological evaluations

Agency's approach for assessing risks to endangered species relies on real-world data




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70 years of US suspicion toward Chinese scientists&#8212;and what those caught in the middle should do now

The US has a fraught history at the intersection of science and China relations




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Corteva and AgPlenus look for new herbicides




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Engineered enzyme pulls apart PET efficiently

Up to 90% of the popular plastic can be broken into monomers in a matter of hours




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Lilly will test baricitinib against COVID-19




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Will EPA ban hazardous pesticide in pet collars?

Federal appeals court orders agency to make a decision within 90 days




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A new electricity-boosting effect seen in perovskites

This photoflexoelectric effect could lead to devices that harvest energy from both light and motion




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A new electricity-boosting effect seen in perovskites

This photoflexoelectric effect could lead to devices that harvest energy from both light and motion




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Will EPA ban hazardous pesticide in pet collars?

Federal appeals court orders agency to make a decision within 90 days




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Xiaogang Liu is using fluorescence to tackle the problem of illicit cooking oil

The Singapore-based physical chemist is building a database of fluorescence fingerprints to help nab adulterated food products




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Praxis Precision Medicines launches with $100 million to develop neuroscience drugs




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Member of US Vice President's staff tests positive for coronavirus -official

A member of US Vice President Mike Pence's staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, briefly delaying his Friday flight to Iowa and prompting some fellow passengers on Air Force Two to disembark, according to a White House official.




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Ecografia dell'apparato osteoarticolare [electronic resource] : anatomia, semeiotica e quadri patologici / [di] Fabio Martino [and others]

[Milano] : Springer, 2006




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Data mining in biomedicine [electronic resource] / edited by Panos M. Pardalos, Vladimir L. Boginski, Alkis Vazacopoulos

Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007




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Costi sociali e aspetti farmacoeconomici [electronic resource] / M.P. Amato, E. Portaccio

Milano : Springer, 2005




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Tokyo Games could be 'greatest ever', says Olympics official

John Coates cites the examples of positive Summer Games that followed the two world wars of the 20th century.




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Simultaneous ozonation of 90 organic micropollutants including illicit drugs and their metabolites in different water matrices

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00260G, Paper
Open Access
Garyfalia A. Zoumpouli, Fernanda Siqueira Souza, Bruce Petrie, Liliana Féris, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Jannis Wenk
The ozonation of 90 chemically diverse organic micropollutants (OMPs) including four classes of illicit drugs and their metabolites was studied in pure buffered water, tap water and wastewater effluent at...
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Fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during hydrothermal liquefaction of municipal wastewater treatment sludge

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1388-1399
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01139K, Paper
Jie Yu, Anastasia Nickerson, Yalin Li, Yida Fang, Timothy J. Strathmann
PFAS sorbed to sludge degrade to varying degrees when sludge is subjected to hydrothermal liquefaction for production of liquid fuel.
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Landfill leachate contributes per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and pharmaceuticals to municipal wastewater

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1300-1311
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00045K, Paper
Open Access
Jason R. Masoner, Dana W. Kolpin, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Kelly L. Smalling, Stephanie C. Bolyard, Jennifer A. Field, Edward T. Furlong, James L. Gray, Duncan Lozinski, Debra Reinhart, Alix Rodowa, Paul M. Bradley
Widespread disposal of landfill leachate to municipal sewer in the US calls for improved understanding of the relative organic-chemical contributions to the WWTP waste stream and associated surface-water discharge to receptors in the environment.
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Emerging investigator series: phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater by adsorption on steelmaking slag preceding forward osmosis: an integrated process

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00187B, Paper
Biplob Kumar Pramanik, Md. Aminul Islam, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Rajeev Roychand, Sagor Kumar Pramanik, Kalpit Shah, Muhammed Bhuiyan, Faisal Hai
Phosphorus is a critical non-renewable mineral essential for sustainable crop production.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You Are Invited to a Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Join Us for a Kluge Center Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence

Get your free tickets here.

On Thursday January 30, at 4pm in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion with Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation Susan Schneider.

Schneider will discuss her new book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, which is an exploration of what artificial intelligence can, and cannot, achieve.

Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind?

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with “tools” they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms.

Schneider will discuss these topics and more, with a reception to follow.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Register for a ticket here.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov




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Gurugram school boy commits suicide after girl levels allegations on him on Instagram

The 17-year-old boy committed suicide in Gurugram`s upscale building after a girl made serious allegations against him on Instagram.




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Man commits suicide after killing wife, minor son in Bikaner

The incident occurred in the Jasrasar police station area, where the man, identified as Suresh, allegedly thrashed his wife Suman (35) and an 11-year-old son in a fit of rage over some issue on Friday night.




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Practicing the correspondence principle in the old quantum theory: a transformation through implementation / Martin Jähnert

Online Resource




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George Placzek: a nuclear physicist's odyssey / Aleš Gottvald (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Misha Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

Hayden Library - QC774.P53 G65 2018




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Einstein's war: how relativity triumphed amid the vicious nationalism of World War I / Matthew Stanley

Hayden Library - QC173.52.S73 2019




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Atomicity through fractal measure theory: mathematical and physical fundamentals with applications / Alina Gavriluţ, Ioan Mercheş, Maricel Agop

Online Resource




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Understanding quantum mechanics: the world according to modern quantum foundations / Detlef Dürr, Dustin Lazarovici

Online Resource




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Asset pricing with fading memory [electronic resource] / Stefan Nagel, Zhengyang Xu

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019




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Anti-bullying laws and suicidal behaviors among teenagers / Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia, Gokhan Kumpas

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Public space design and social cohesion: an international comparison / edited by Patricia Aelbrecht and Quentin Stevens

Rotch Library - HT185.P833 2019




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Regional-global: dilemas de la región y de la regionalización en la geografía contemporánea / Rogério Haesbaert ; edición cuidado de Perla Zusman ; traducción de José Ángel Quintero Weir

Online Resource




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Building resilient neighbourhoods in Singapore: the convergence of policies, research and practice / Chan-Hoong Leong, Lai-Choo Malone-Lee, editors

Rotch Library - HT169.S55 B85 2019




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Changing urban renewal policies in China: policy transfer and policy learning under multiple hierarchies / Giulia C. Romano

Online Resource




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Urban Dynamics: conflicts, representation, appropriations and policies / Anne-Marie Autissier, Javier Gómez-Montero, Anxo Abuín, Victor A. Ferretti, Rubén C. Lois González, Rainer Wehrhahn (eds.)

Rotch Library - HT151.U73 2018




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Governance for urban services: access, participation, accountability, and transparency / Shabbir Cheema, editor

Online Resource




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Evolution of Scotland's towns: creation, growth and fragmentation / E. Patricia Dennison

Rotch Library - HT384.S36 D46 2018




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[ASAP] Cell Type-Dependent Specificity and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Charge-Reversible MSNs-COS-CMC for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cervical Carcinoma

Molecular Pharmaceutics
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[ASAP] Overcoming Doxorubicin Resistance with Lipid–Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles Photoreleasing Nitric Oxide

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00290




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[ASAP] Enhancing Safety and Efficacy by Altering the Toxic Aggregated State of Amphotericin B in Lipidic Nanoformulations

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00313




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[ASAP] Preparation, Characterization, and Formulation Optimization of Ionic-Liquid-in-Water Nanoemulsions toward Systemic Delivery of Amphotericin B

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00809




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[ASAP] <italic toggle="yes">In Vitro</italic> Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability and Cytotoxicity of an Atorvastatin-Loaded Nanoformulation Against Glioblastoma in 2D and 3D Models

Molecular Pharmaceutics
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b01117