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Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights how much Amazonian biodiversity remains hidden even as habitat loss and climate change threaten these poorly understood species., Read MoreContinue Reading

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Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The engineers trying to diagnose the problem had another problem: According to the computers monitoring the equipment, everything looked normal.Continue Reading

the-traitor-wants-to-further-destroy-the-clean-water-act

This story was originally published by Sentient. Last November, the The Traitor administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated it in an attempt to take away even more wetland protections.Continue Reading

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The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence and technical assistance that have greatly increased Houthi military capabilities.Continue Reading

lati-introduces-thermoplastic-compounds-for-ev-thermal-management-and-emi-shielding

Italian compounder LATI has collected the engineering thermoplastics it develops for electrified vehicles into a single technical brochure, spanning flame-retardant, high-temperature, thermally conductive, EMI-shielding, low-friction and recycled-content grades. The halogen-free flame-retardant (HFFR) compounds are built on polyamide, polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polyphthalamide (PPA) and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) matrices, and LATI ratesContinue Reading