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1 year ago+14 14 0Scientists Discover That Money Actually Can Buy Happiness
Money can’t buy happiness. Or can it? That’s what new research says. Research published via PNAs demonstrated something that our society has debated for several years. The experiment consisted in giving 200 people $10,000 (which was handed out by wea ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0New York’s governor signs watered-down right-to-repair bill
Almost seven months after the state legislature overwhelmingly passed a right-to-repair bill, New York governor Kathy Hochul has signed it into law. But Hochul only greenlit the bill after the legislature agreed to some changes. Hochul wrote in a mem ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0The rise and fall of peer review
For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0‘I’ll stop saying I don’t eat meat – and tell people I don’t eat animals’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023
I don’t think I’ve ever made a new year resolution. But this year I’m going to stop telling people that I don’t eat meat. It’s not that I do eat meat – I don’t. The thing is, when I tell people that I don’t eat meat, I’m saying it to be polite. I use ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0How the James Webb Space Telescope transformed astronomy this year
One year ago, on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched. Since it began collecting data, it has captured - in stunning detail - previously unobservable stars, planets and galaxies.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its industry-wide carbon capture proposal
ExxonMobil has been the prime target of activists and politicians angered by the oil industry’s efforts to block action on climate change. Now, newly disclosed documents confirm that the oil company’s reputational woes have extended into the industry ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0European Union reaches agreement on pivotal carbon market deal
European Union negotiators reached agreement early on Sunday on overhauling the bloc’s carbon market, the bloc’s main policy tool for fighting global warming, the Czech EU presidency and the European Council said.
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1 year ago+21 21 0AI Drew This Gorgeous Comics Series. You'd Never Know It
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the ...
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1 year ago+8 8 0Global coal consumption to reach all-time high this year
Global coal consumption is set to rise to an all-time high in 2022 and remain at similar levels in the next few years if stronger efforts are not made to move to a low-carbon economy, a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Hugh Grant Boards ‘The Palace’ Limited Series at HBO
Hugh Grant is headed back to HBO. The BAFTA-winning actor has been cast in the premium cabler’s limited series The Palace, starring Kate Winslet. The series comes from Succession writer and executive producer Will Tracy. Grant joins a cast that also ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Marsquakes, recent volcanism suggest Mars still has a mantle plume
The Mars InSight lander included the first seismograph placed on the red planet, and it has picked up everything from marsquakes to impacts and provided lots of new information on Mars' interior. But perhaps its most striking finding has been th ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose Says He'll Stop 'Tossing the Mic' into Crowd After Reportedly Injuring Fan
Axl Rose is making a change to his onstage habits. The Guns N' Roses frontman, 60, will no longer throw his microphone into the crowd after he and his bandmates perform the final song on their set list at concerts. The move comes about after a w ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike
The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week is the longest-running cable television series in history, filling screens with sharky content every summer since 1988. It causes one of the largest temporary increases in U.S. viewers’ attention to any scien ...
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1 year ago+29 29 0 x 1PFAS left dangerous blood compounds in nearly all US study participants
Nearly all participants in a new study looking at exposure to PFAS “forever chemicals” in the US state of North Carolina have multiple dangerous compounds in their blood, and most at levels that researchers say requires medical screening. The North C ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0NASA discovery reveals there may have been life on Mars
Caroline Smith, who works at the Natural History Museum, discusses a new discovery made by a NASA rover that may provide evidence of past life on Mars.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Amazon to invest $1 billion yearly to produce movies for theaters
Yahoo Finance Live’s Akiko Fujita discusses reports that Amazon could soon invest $1 billion a year to produce movies for theaters.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Is eco-vandalism an effective way to raise awareness about climate change? Experts weigh in.
Climate activists have been targeting priceless works of art all over the world to spread the urgent message of the global climate emergency.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Justin Trudeau to become 1st world leader to appear in ‘Drag Race’ franchise
Justin Trudeau is swinging by the “werkroom” on an upcoming spinoff of Canada’s Drag Race. Producers of the drag queen competition series say the Prime Minister will make a special appearance on Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World. He’s the firs ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Feds announce $3.36 billion seizure of bitcoin, the second-largest recovery of crypto so far
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it seized about $3.36 billion in stolen bitcoin during a previously unannounced 2021 raid on the residence of James Zhong. Zhong pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud, which carries a ma ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0With Meat-Free Fridays, the Catholic Church could save 'millions of tons' of CO2 emissions.
Suppose Catholic head Pope Francis were to return to the days of no meat in Catholic churches across the globe. In that case, The change could reduce millions of metric tonnes in greenhouse gases every year to a new study by the University of Cambrid ...