What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of April 19, 2021

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Mon, 19 Apr 2021
Caught speeding: Clocking the fastest-spinning brown dwarfs

Gemini North observations help identify rotational speed limit for brown dwarfs

Astronomers have discovered the most rapidly rotating brown dwarfs — three brown dwarfs that each complete a full rotation roughly once every hour. The rate is so extreme that if they rotated any faster, they could come close to tearing apart.

Brown dwarfs are,

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Mon, 19 Apr 2021
Road salts are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

Study warns that cascading effects of salts require coordinated management

When winter storms threaten to make travel dangerous, people often turn to salt, spreading it liberally over highways, streets and sidewalks to melt snow and ice.

However, a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the

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