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This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
Extreme heat has been a constant in the news this past summer: In July a punishing heat wave in Europe…
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Most plant milks are lower in key micronutrients than cow’s milk
Cow’s milk is an important source of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and selenium, but tests show these nutrients are lacking in…
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A Cure for Vaccine Hesitancy Could Start in Kindergarten
The book Splat the Cat Goes to the Doctor and the nursery rhyme “This Is the Way We Brush Our…
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Fantastic Sea Creatures Photographed Up Close and Personal
ANGEL, MONSTER When sea angels hunt, they transform into monsters. The free-swimming slugs, less than an inch long, store six…
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Here’s How Some Species Will Survive Climate Change
Every middle-school student learns the dogma: a species is defined as a group of organisms that interbreed and produce fertile…
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NASA’s UFO Study Isn’t Really Looking for Space Aliens
Across his years of studying auroras, University of Calgary physicist Eric Donovan had periodically seen pictures and data showing something…
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Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered
Metal-making practices described in a 2300-year-old text called the Kaogong Ji are more sophisticated than anyone realised Humans 10 August…
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What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?
The US senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest climate spending package in US…
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Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
Barred from her lab by pandemic restrictions, behavioral ecologist Daniela Rößler caught local jumping spiders and kept them in clear…
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A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon
One day last December, John Walker Moosbrugger, a 25-year-old project manager for the lunar robotics start-up Astrobotic, sat in front…
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