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Public research university in Corvallis, Oregon, known for strengths in oceanography, agriculture, forestry, and the earth sciences.
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Oregon State chemists report a framework, BVR-19, that makes hydrogen from water in light with no added expensive metal catalyst. Without a reported rate or efficiency, its bearing on green hydrogen's roughly $5-a-kilogram price is still untested.
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Oregon State researchers used a single magnetic nanoparticle to show mouse placentas on MRI and then disrupt them with heat of 45C or less. If it holds up in other animals, one injected agent could both locate a misplaced pregnancy and end it without surgery.
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Oregon State researchers report in JACS that BVR-19, a metal-organic framework, makes hydrogen from water under light without an added metal catalyst. The work gives chemists design rules for solar hydrogen, but whether it can make the fuel cheaper depends on production rates and lifetimes.
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Oregon State and Columbia researchers found livestock spread across Madagascar about 1,200 years ago, as its large native herbivores declined. People may have arrived millennia earlier, so the timing argues against hunting alone as the cause of the extinctions.
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The site holds about 17,000 tagged feeding observations covering some 5,700 species, contributed by roughly 2,000 observers in more than 100 countries. The team is still building tools to validate submissions.
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Duncan Russet is the 14th commercial variety from a public program whose potatoes have been licensed to nearly 150 companies for more than $11 million since 1998. Potato virus Y can cost an unchecked field 80% of its yield.
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Bigelow Laboratory and Oregon State assembled genomes of a puffball-forming cyanobacterium from lakes in five states. Every sample carried the geosmin genes, and none carried the pathways for microcystin.
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Tree moss around the Hillsboro and Troutdale airports held up to seven times the lead measured elsewhere in Portland, with an isotopic signature that points at aviation gasoline rather than the legacy lead cars left behind.
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The only measured number in the file is one Portland intersection's average speed dropping from 39 mph to 30. Costs stay unpublished on both sides, which leaves the cheaper-than-enforcement case resting on mechanism alone.
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A Montana State-led study in PNAS reads pollen, charcoal, arsenic and diatoms from closed lakes in the Lower Geyser Basin. Its framing: dry centuries brought less hydrothermal activity and more fire.
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New work in Nature Geoscience finds past Atlantic slowdowns raised the heat stored by the global ocean, an effect the authors size at about 25 ppm of carbon dioxide.
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