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+32Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home?
For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States. Can a stunning new museum change that narrative?
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+37Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders
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+28‘My 50-year puzzle of the East Lothian hill where ancient fires burned’
Leading archaeologist Professor Ian Ralston has rewritten the story of Doon Hill in East Lothian, with his long career set to be honoured
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+27Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel: '10,000 times the force of Earth's gravity'
SpinLaunch is developing a large rotating arm that uses kinetic energy to fling 440-pound satellites into low orbit.
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+36Scientists Discover How Tardigrades Survive Blasts of Radiation, And It's Weird
Tardigrades are possibly the most indestructible animal on Earth.
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+31Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain
Are wombats the accidental heroes of the Australian bush? After the Black Summer bushfires, we set up 56 cameras to capture animal activity in areas with and without wombat burrows to find out.
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+31Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend
The tabby will become a "Doctor of Litter-ature" in recognition of his contributions to the Castleton campus, where he has become a regular visitor for the past four years.
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+27Should We Kill Some Wild Creatures to Protect Others?
Two new books take up the ethics of killing some animals to protect others. By Elizabeth Kolbert
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+18Teen Builds His Own Nuclear Fusion Reactor At College
Cesare Mencarini’s recent extended project qualification (EPQ) earned him an “A” for his studies in the United Kingdom—and became, it is believed, the first nuclear reactor built in a school environment.
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+28The 5 Dinosaurs That DIDNT Go Extinct!
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+29Can Snakes Really Bond with Each Other and Their Owners? | Rex Colubra
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+27Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 Search for the Lost Franklin Bay Expedition
“Royal Navy personnel brought homing pigeons with them as they searched for the Lost Franklin Bay Expedition in the 1850s. Given that homing pigeons were very much a novelty amongst the British public at the time, this represents an early usage of pigeons in a British military setting.”
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+32The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say "bird flu in cows"
How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.
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+25Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions
Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis published June 7 in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability. Researchers suggest that charging carbon emitters with an emission tax could help fund such basic income program while reducing environmental degradation.
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+27Snake locomotion
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+24Cats Kill Billions Of Birds Every Year. It’s Time For That To Stop.
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+32Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by Scientists
Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.
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+29Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
Machine learning technique viewed as boon to urban research
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+24Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplace
Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.
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+23Australian scientists identify ‘Age of Monotremes’
Evidence of the oldest known platypus and a new species ‘echidnapus’.