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A line of clouts stretches from the tropical Pacific to western North America where it becomes a massive storm.
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The Pineapple Express — an atmospheric river originating in the tropical Pacific — walloped western North America in February 2017. These systems are becoming more frequent at higher latitudes, leaving mid latitudes drier.

Atmospheric rivers are shifting toward the poles, possibly following a long-term cycle

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Auger-Meitner Effect on electron energy loss
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Fangzhou Zhao
The trap-assisted Auger-Meitner effect allows for energy to be transferred to another electron.

Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner recombination exposed as a major loss mechanism in LEDs
researchers working with Senegalese partners
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners

Nuisance vegetation removal in Senegalese waterways reduces the overall prevalence of parasitic infections and increases local food production
abstract purple and pink peptide molecule

A new synergistic method can create non-canonical amino acids by merging synthetic photochemistry with biocatalysis
dune plant and dune fence
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Karina Johnston
Beach bur, a native plant that helped to form dunes on a section of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles

Dune restoration could increase the resilience of Southern California's urban beaches to sea level rise
concept of attaching radical molecule to aromatic compound
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A ‘toolbox of biocatalysts’ improves control over free radicals
walking on shore on left glitching on right
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Amelie Funk

Climate science is catching up to climate change with predictions that could improve proactive response
Diatoms under the microscope.
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Elif Bayraktar via iStock
Diatoms are one of the largest groups of phytoplankton, which serve as a foundation of the ocean’s food web.

Important groups of phytoplankton tolerate some strategies to remove CO2 from the ocean
colorful concept of a cell stress landscape
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Max Wilson

First map of a cellular stress memory landscape paves the way for better understanding of cell stress-related disease processes
Illustration of a transmitter assembly, including electronic and photonic integrated circuits
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In this image of the newly developed transmitter assembly, the small, brownish chip on the left is the electronic integrated circuit (EIC), and the larger, black-and-gold chip on the right is the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The long structure on the left side of the PIC is the modulator, which converts the electrical signal into an optical one. Light gets coupled into and out of the chip through the fibers on the right side of the PIC. Everything is mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), with gold wire bonds connecting the chips. Data flows from left to right, where the incoming electrical signal gets amplified by the EIC, converted to an optical signal by the PIC, and sent out via fiber to its destination.

Student-led holistic co-design of photonics, electronics and packaging enables faster, more-efficient data transfer
an orange garibaldi with a scientific diver in the background
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Chris Honeyman
A research diver conducts periodic monitoring of a kelp forest marine protected area

Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific
An AI-generated illustration of an engineer at a laptop, looking at a robot
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An AI-generated image depicts engineers working on an AI-enabled robot.

GauchoAI team takes second place in Amazon’s Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
A thinning forest on a hill.
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Lee Anderegg
A forest community changes as trembling aspen succumb to drought in southwestern Colorado.

Forests can adapt to climate change, but not quickly enough
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