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Researchers demonstrate new nickel selenide catalyst for more efficient water splitting

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A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece have developed a highly efficient transition metal selenide-based coordination complex, [Ni{(SePiPr 2 ) 2 N} 2 ] for oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER, respectively) in alkaline solution.

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Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe

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The sweltering conditions upended vacations throughout the summer season as visitors collapsed from heat exhaustion at crowded tourist sites, and wildfires led to evacuations in Greece, Italy and Spain. We couldn’t even cool off in the pool because there was no shade and the water was hot,” Ms. Walker recalled. “We

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Some 29% of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, mainly due to dredging and degradation of water quality. —co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF’s Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site. The research also estimates that, although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2% At least 1.5%

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UT Austin researchers successfully spoof yacht at sea with false GPS signals

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A radio navigation research team from The University of Texas at Austin successfully coerced a 213-foot yacht off its course, using a GPS spoofing device. In June, the team was invited aboard the yacht White Rose of Drachs while it traveled from Monaco to Rhodes, Greece, on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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The popularity of other routes, such as to Italy’s Lampedusa Island, 140 km from Tunis, and to Greece, some of whose islands are within sight of Turkish beaches, grew. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. The Guardia Civil credits SIVE with. Member States,” says geographer.

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