breaking science news 2020
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Bigger Floods Endanger Millions Living in Extreme Poverty
CLIMATEWIRE | Flood risk around the world is rising as the planet warms, and millions of people living in poverty…
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: July 2022
1972 Faster Photography “Edwin H. Land, founder of the Polaroid Corporation, gave the first extensive account of his firm’s newest…
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Why two-thirds of IVF embryos suddenly stop developing
A new insight into why some IVF embryos go into “developmental arrest” could help researchers create treatments that coax them…
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Reclassification of Earth’s minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought
Some scientists suggest minerals should be reorganised by the methods that make them, which would increase the known number of…
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We Need to Make ‘Electrifying Everything’ Easier
Converting a home to run on renewable energy has never looked more appealing. Oil and gas prices have surged while…
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How Connected Cars Can Map Urban Heat Islands
Early one May morning in 1927 researcher Wilhelm Schmidt attached a mercury thermometer to his car door and drove around…
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How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
After the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, in a haze of horror and…
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Roe v Wade overturned: What that means for safe abortion in the US
By Dana G. Smith Activists demonstrating in front of the US Supreme Court on 3 May Win McNamee/Getty Images THE US…
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How AI Facial Recognition is Helping Conserve Pumas
INTRO: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Ashleigh Papp. Papp: Mountain lions are now posing for their close ups.…
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How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
Ten years ago scientists announced one of the most momentous discoveries in physics: the Higgs boson. The particle, predicted 48 years…
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