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• Get used to heat waves: Extreme El Nino events to double
• Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the cosmic web
• Solar-power device would use heat to enhance efficiency
• Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor

Get used to heat waves: Extreme El Nino events to double Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST Extreme weather events fueled by unusually strong El Ninos, such as the 1983 heatwave that led to the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia, are likely to double in number as our planet warms.

Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the cosmic web Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Using the 10-meter Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, researchers detected a very large, luminous nebula of gas extending about 2 million light-years across intergalactic space.

Solar-power device would use heat to enhance efficiency Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST A new approach to harvesting solar energy could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. This technique could also make it easier to store the energy for later use, the researchers say.

Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:23 AM PST Researchers have decoded the genome of the hookworm, Necator americanus, finding clues to how it infects and survives in humans and to aid in development of new therapies to combat hookworm disease.

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