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Humans Used to Be Good for the Planet, And We Can Be Again
Humans used nearly three-quarters of the Earth's land 12,000 years ago and colonization and industrialization brought negative effects, new research shows.
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What would happen if the polar ice caps melted? It's worse than you think
“The number of people that would be affected by this is about 40% of the world population.”
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DNA robots designed in minutes instead of days
Someday, scientists believe, tiny DNA-based robots and other nanodevices will deliver medicine inside our bodies, detect the presence of deadly pathogens, and help manufacture increasingly smaller electronics.
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Know What’s Inside the Head of a Procrastinated Mind
Why you do it? Ways to reduce it.
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Sony's 'FlavorGraph' uses AI to predict how ingredients will pair together
AI has gone into games, self-driving and other areas with mixed success, and now it's trying its hand at cooking. After Google's AI went up against a Great British Bake Off winner, Sony has developed a deep learning system called FlavorGraph designed to pair up ingredients like garlic, olives and milk.
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As scientists move closer to making part human, part animal organisms, what are the concerns?
Researchers made human-monkey chimeras, by adding human stem cells to monkey embryos. Some embryos were cultured for 19 days after fertilisation.
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Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn
Diet seems to have a bigger impact on neurological health than scientists thought.
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How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking?
Walking is good for you, obviously. But can it whip you into shape?
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Need a New Tooth? Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth
The tooth fairy is a welcome guest for any child who has lost a tooth. Not only will the fairy leave a small gift under the pillow, but the child can be assured of a new tooth in a few months. The same cannot be said of adults who have lost their teeth.
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What would happen if Earth stopped spinning?
In the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, an extraterrestrial named Klaatu and his robot companion Gort stop nearly all of the electronics on Earth simultaneously, using their advanced alien technology. Cars, factories, television sets and more all cease to work, and the planet settles into an eerie pause.
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Pfizer vaccine not strong enough to resist South African Covid variant: study
The relatively aggressive coronavirus variant first discovered in South Africa is able to "break through" Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, according to a real-world study that was published in Israel yesterday.
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Forest elephants are now critically endangered -- here's how to count them
A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and working closely with experts from the Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon (ANPN) compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants.
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How many T. rexes were there? Billions.
By analyzing what’s known about the dinosaur, paleontologists conclude there were 2.5 billion T. rex over the 2.4-million-year existence of the species
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The Dawn of Wireless Electricity Is Finally Upon Us. And New Zealand Is Giving It a Try.
This startup says it can send electric power over long distances without copper wire.
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Human Composting Is Disrupting the Death Industry
The newest and largest human composting facility was founded by an entrepreneur who saw an entry point into a burgeoning new industry.
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DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared
First nuclear DNA from sediment shows turnover, migration among ancient cave dwellers in Spain
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Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests
Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say
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Scientists reveal the 6 places on Earth where we can restore animal life
Scientists have devised a new way of looking at habitat loss on Earth, finding that 97 percent of Earth's land area may no longer be ecologically intact.
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Why teenage sleep is so important for mental health
Teenagers can sometimes struggle to get out of bed in the morning – but ensuring they get enough sleep could be vital for health in later life.
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Ancient people may have created cave art while hallucinating
Some of these ancient drawings are found in the deep, dark areas of caves that would have been difficult to get to.
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