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1 year ago+16 16 0Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time
Exclusive: Researchers concerned over potential health impacts of chemical contaminants on babies
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1 year ago+22 22 0Neuroscientists unravel the mystery of why you can’t tickle yourself
New study shows how tickling, playfulness can address key questions about the brain.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Study finds that climate change added 10% to Ian's rainfall
Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, a study prepared immediately after the storm shows. Thursday’s research, which is not peer-reviewed, compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm to about 20 different computer scena ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Mexico is world's deadliest spot for environmental activists
Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense activists, according to a global survey released Wednesday, and the Yaqui Indigenous people of northern Mexico are still mourning the killing of water-defense leade ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Buzz stops: bus shelter roofs turned into gardens for bees and butterflies
Butterflies and bees are getting their own transport network as “bee bus stops” start to pop up around UK cities and across Europe. Humble bus shelter roofs are being turned into riots of colour, with the number of miniature gardens – full of pollina ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Did People Used To Look Older?
Is there any truth to the idea?
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1 year ago+17 17 0Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating Netflix national parks series
Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, "Our Great National Parks."
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1 year ago+9 9 0Birds migrate along ancient routes – here are the latest high-tech tools scientists are using to study their amazing journeys
Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the northern U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in the so ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, dead at 91
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying on Tuesday.
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1 year ago+19 19 0Curiosity Mars rover gets 50 per cent speed boost from software update
The navigation strategy of NASA's Curiosity rover means it has to stop frequently to check its position, but soon a software update will allow it to move almost continuously.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Photos: Mystery surrounds mass fish deaths in the Oder River
Germany and Poland look for the cause of the mass fish die-off in the Oder, which runs through the two countries.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systems
New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and care. It argues that food systems can instead be the foundation of h ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Decoding Animals Language Using AI, Here Are the Possibilities
In 1970, an album on whale was released that gave rise to a movement that led to commercial whaling being banned. Aza Raskin, president and cofounder of the non profit group, Earth Species Project (ESP) says, “dolphin handler makes the signal for “to ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0California will start producing insulin and selling it at a cheaper rate soon
California will start producing insulin and selling it at a cheaper rate as Insulin is held prisoner by a health care system in the United States that is persistently resistant to improvements, allowing firms to dominate the market and maximize profi ...
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1 year ago+7 7 0Parts of the moon have stable temperatures fit for humans, researchers find
Hoping to live on the moon one day? Your chances just got a tiny bit better. The moon has pits and caves where temperatures stay at roughly 63 degrees Fahrenheit, making human habitation a possibility, according to new research from planetary scienti ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0PS5 owners suing Sony for knowingly selling defective consoles
After suffering frequent crashes on their PS5s, a group of disgruntled customers want to take Sony to court over it. Only last year, Sony found itself facing legal action over selling defective DualSense controllers, and now it’s been hit with simila ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Elon Musk's 76-year-old dad says he's had another child with his 35-year-old stepdaughter: 'The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce'
The revelation came shortly after Insider reported Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins last year with one of his top Neuralink executives, Shivon Zilis.
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1 year ago+10 10 0‘Drive to Survive’ Made Americans Fall in Love With Formula 1
The Netflix show sold the European sport to a U.S. audience. But will the romance last after the series is gone?
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1 year ago+9 9 0New tropics ozone hole is 7 times bigger than Antarctic hole, study says
A study published by Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo, reports that a “large and all-season ozone hole” has been detected over the tropics (30°N–30°S) and has been in existence since the 1980s. The study stated that the tropic ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Report: Apple is gearing up to launch a ‘flood’ of new devices starting this fall
Apple’s poised to release a slew of new devices between this fall and the beginning of 2023, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. What Gurman describes as a “deluge” of products will reportedly include four iPhone 14 devices, a set of ...