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Scientists find excess nitrogen favors plants that respond poorly to rising CO2

Two grass species that had been relatively rare in the plots, Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata, began to respond vigorously to the excess nitrogen. Eventually the grasses became much more abundant. Nitrogen ultimately changed the composition of the ecosystem as well as its capacity to store carbon.

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Coral “whisperer” Mike Henley of the National Zoo explains how he cares for the Zoo’s living coral

How do you recreate the ocean in a box? National Zoo Keeper Mike Henley talks about how he cares for the aquatic invertebrates in the Zoo's collection and how the National Zoo is also working to preserve them in their native habitats.

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Starch grains found on Neandertal teeth debunks theory that dietary deficiencies caused their extinction

The discovery of starch granules in the calculus on Neandertal teeth provides direct evidence that they made sophisticated, thoughtful food choices and ate more nutrient-rich plants, for example date palms, legumes and grains such as barley.

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“Extinct” birds reappear in rainforest fragments in Brazil

Bird species in rainforest fragments in Brazil that were isolated by deforestation first disappeared and then reappeared during the next quarter-century.

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Insect mimic of ginko-like leaf discovered 165 million years after its extinction

Exquisitely preserved in fossil sediments dating from the Middle Jurassic, the insect, newly named Juracimbrophlebia ginkgofolia, was discovered in 165 million-year-old deposits, as was the ginko-like tree, Yimaia capituliformis, the mimicked plant.

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Warming climate unlikely to cause near-term extinction of ancient Amazon trees, study says

A new genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive human-caused climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out.

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Going for the gut: DNA from beetle stomachs reveals complex network

Going for the gut will soon become standard protocol for scientists working to unravel the complex living web of interactions between plants and animals on […]

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Century-long Smithsonian experiment tests forest diversity

Tucked into the wooded landscape and rolling hills of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., is a new forest. Six months ago, a […]

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Genetically modified soybean pollen threatens Mexican honey sales

Mexico is the fourth largest honey producer and fifth largest honey exporter in the world. A Smithsonian researcher and colleagues helped rural farmers in Mexico […]

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Next Engineering Revolution Is Hiding in Museum Collections

Engineers shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel—or wings, or sonar systems—when mother nature has already done much of the heavy design work. In fact, finding […]

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Smithsonian celebrates Panama Canal expansion!

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) celebrated with Panama the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project on June 26, 2016. The $5.6 billion engineering […]

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3D study of teeth in modern mammals opens window to extinct animal diets

By charting the slopes and crags on animals’ teeth as if they were mountain ranges, scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have […]

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Rigid yet flexible: Anatomy of woody vines has its grip on botanist Marcelo Pace

What might lure someone away from the sunny beaches and lush forests of Brazil to the concrete jungle of Washington, D.C.? For wood anatomist Marcelo […]

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Clean = Sexy for this Panamanian Bird

(A male golden-collared manakin cleans up his display area.) Few of us would find a marriage proposal made amidst dirty dishes and messy clutter particularly […]

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Using digitized Botany specimens, AI excels in simple curatorial tasks

Millions, if not billions, of specimens reside in the world’s natural history collections, but most of these have not been carefully studied, or even looked […]

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Comparison of two MnIVMnIV-bis-μ-oxo complexes, {[MnIV{N4(6-Me-DPEN)}]2(μ-O)2}2+ and {[MnIV{N4(6-Me-DPPN)}]2(μ-O)2}2+

The addition of tert-butyl hydro­peroxide (tBuOOH) to two MnII complexes, differing by a small synthetic alteration from an ethyl to a propyl linker in the ligand scaffold, results in the formation of the high-valent bis-oxo complexes, {[MnIV{N4(6-Me-DPEN)}]2(μ-O)2}2+ (1) and {[MnIV{N4(6-Me-DPPN)}]2(μ-O)2}2+ (2).




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Synthesis and crystal structure of (1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N')[2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)phenyl-κ2N2,C1]iridium(III) hexa­fluorido­phosphate with an unknown number of solvent mol­ecules

The cationic cyclo­metallated iridium(III) complex [Ir(C9H7N2)2(C12H8N2)](PF6) has been synthesized and crystallized by the inter-diffusion method. It contains an unknown number of solvent mol­ecules and has a different space-group symmetry (C2/c) structure than its solvatomorph (P21/c).




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Report of the Executive Committee for 2017

The report of the Executive Committee for 2017 is presented.




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Model-independent extraction of the shapes and Fourier transforms from patterns of partially overlapped peaks with extended tails

This work presents a technique for extracting the detailed shape of peaks with extended, overlapping tails in an X-ray powder diffraction pattern. The application discussed here concerns crystallite size broadening, though the technique can be applied to spectra of any origin and without regard to how the profiles are to be subsequently analyzed. Historically, the extraction of profile shapes has been difficult due to the complexity of determining the background under the peak, resulting in an offset of the low-frequency components of the Fourier transform of the peak known as the `hook' problem. The use of a carefully considered statistical weighting function in a non-linear least-squares fit, followed by summing the residuals from such a fit with the fit itself, allows one to extract the full shape of an isolated peak, without contributions from either the background or adjacent peaks. The extracted shape, consisting of the fit function recombined with the residuals, is not dependent on any specific shape model. The application of this to analysis of microstructure is performed independently of global parametric models, which would reduce the number of refined parameters; therefore the technique requires high-quality data to produce results of interest. The effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated by extraction of Fourier transforms of peaks from two sets of size-broadened materials with two differing pieces of equipment.




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MATLAB - When opening a text file with UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding using the Import Tool, a warning message is shown, and if you proceed, the data may not be imported correctly.

If you try to open a text file with UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding, the Import Tool displays a warning message stating that the encoding is not supported.  If you continue to load the file anyways, it is opened with UTF-8 encoding, and the file may not be displayed or imported as expected.This bug exists in the following release(s):
R2020a

This bug has a workaround

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DataVisor Fraud Index Report: Q2 2019

Customers online want convenience, ease, and access. Fortunately, your business offers it all. Unfortunately, thats what fraudsters want too.





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Synthesis and crystal structure of (1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N')[2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)phenyl-κ2N2,C1]iridium(III) hexafluoridophosphate with an unknown number of solvent molecules

The cationic complex in the title compound, [Ir(C9H7N2)2(C12H8N2)]PF6, comprises two phenylpyrazole (ppz) cyclometallating ligands and one 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) ancillary ligand. The asymmetric unit consists of one [Ir(ppz)2(phen)]+ cation and one [PF6]− counter-ion. The central IrIII ion is six-coordinated by two N atoms and two C atoms from the two ppz ligands as well as by two N atoms from the phen ligand within a distorted octahedral C2N4 coordination set. In the crystal structure, the [Ir(ppz)2(phen)]+ cations and PF6− counter-ions are connected with each other through weak intermolecular C—H...F hydrogen bonds. Additional C—H...π interactions between the rings of neighbouring cations consolidate the three-dimensional network. Electron density associated with additional disordered solvent molecules inside cavities of the structure was removed with the SQUEEZE procedure in PLATON [Spek (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 9–18]. The given chemical formula and other crystal data do not take into account the unknown solvent molecule(s). The title compound has a different space-group symmetry (C2/c) from its solvatomorph (P21/c) comprising 1.5CH2Cl2 solvent molecules per ion pair.




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The many flavours of halogen bonds – message from experimental electron density and Raman spectroscopy

Experimental electron-density studies based on high-resolution diffraction experiments allow halogen bonds between heavy halogens to be classified. The topological properties of the electron density in Cl⋯Cl contacts vary smoothly as a function of the inter­action distance. The situation is less straightforward for halogen bonds between iodine and small electronegative nucleophiles, such as nitro­gen or oxygen, where the electron density in the bond critical point does not simply increase for shorter distances. The number of successful charge–density studies involving iodine is small, but at least individual examples for three cases have been observed. (a) Very short halogen bonds between electron-rich nucleophiles and heavy halogen atoms resemble three-centre–four-electron bonds, with a rather symmetric heavy halogen and without an appreciable σ hole. (b) For a narrow inter­mediate range of halogen bonds, the asymmetric electronic situation for the heavy halogen with a pronounced σ hole leads to rather low electron density in the (3,−1) critical point of the halogen bond; the properties of this bond critical point cannot fully describe the nature of the associated inter­action. (c) For longer and presumably weaker contacts, the electron density in the halogen bond critical point is only to a minor extent reduced by the presence of the σ hole and hence may be higher than in the aforementioned case. In addition to the electron density and its derived properties, the halogen–carbon bond distance opposite to the σ hole and the Raman frequency for the associated vibration emerge as alternative criteria to gauge the halogen-bond strength. We find exceptionally long C—I distances for tetra­fluoro­diiodo­benzene molecules in cocrystals with short halogen bonds and a significant red shift for their Raman vibrations.




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An efficient method for indexing grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction data of epitaxially grown thin films

A method is described for indexing grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction data of epitaxially grown thin films comprising various crystal orientations and/or polymorphs by measuring reciprocal-lattice vectors.




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Testing of a `hard' X-ray interferometer for experimental investigations

A new type of X-ray LLL interferometer, a `hard' interferometer, which has both a base and a `ceiling', is tested for experimental investigations. The tested interferometer has no preliminary uncontrollable moiré and can be used for object and deformation investigations.




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Texture corrections for total scattering functions

The Debye scattering equation (DSE) is generalized and augmented in order to account for moderate texture effects, yielding the differential cross section as a function of atomic coordinates and texture coefficients subject to symmetry constraints. Implications for the evaluation of the pair distribution function (PDF) as a direct transform of powder diffraction data from textured samples are also discussed.




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New kind of interference in the case of X-ray Laue diffraction in a single crystal with uneven exit surface under the conditions of the Borrmann effect. Analytical solution

The analytical solution of the problem of X-ray spherical-wave Laue diffraction in a single crystal with a linear change of thickness on the exit surface is derived. General equations are applied to a specific case of plane-wave Laue diffraction in a thick crystal under the conditions of the Borrmann effect.




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The Fedorov–Groth law revisited: complexity analysis using mineralogical data

Using mineralogical data, it is demonstrated that chemical simplicity measured as an amount of Shannon information per atom on average corresponds to higher symmetry measured as an order of the point group of a mineral, which provides a modern formulation of the Fedorov–Groth law.




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Amex employee accesses customer info fraudulently

(The Paypers) American Express (Amex) has sent a data breach notification to a group of its...




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Verimi, Scrive team up to expand digital identity in Europe

(The Paypers) Scrive, a Nordic e-sign and eID services provider, and



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Facebook's Libra unveils HSBC legal head as its first chief executive

Facebook’s digital currency project Libra has unveiled HSBC legal chief...




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Dash, Ankerpay to expand DASH payments network in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital currency provider Dash has partnered with South...




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Blockpass, Tozex partner for KYC, AML compliance of crypto trading

Blockpass and crypto asset platform