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War, Politics, Business Make Meeting 1.5 Degrees C Target Unlikely
Keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is “currently not plausible,” warns a new report from the University of Hamburg.…
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Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster
An experiment in beetles shows that when parents care for their young, the population accumulates more mutations over time, but…
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Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month
The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one…
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Want to avoid a heated argument? This trick could help
Debate a friend about vaccines, politics, or even who’ll win the Super Bowl this year, and it rarely ends well.…
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San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests
San Francisco officials have called for a slower, more considered expansion of the use of autonomous vehicles, which have blocked…
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China Invests $546 Billion in Clean Energy, Far Surpassing the U.S.
China once again topped the world in clean energy investments last year, a trend that could challenge U.S. efforts to…
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New Apps Aim to Douse the Social Media Dumpster Fire
After Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter, many habitual tweeters announced their intentions of switching to other social platforms. Some…
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JWST Heralds a New Dawn for Exoplanet Science
Any future historian of 21st-century space science may well divide the subject into two eras: before the James Webb Space…
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Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One
For much of human history and across multiple cultures, ethical behavior has been guided by the Golden Rule: do unto…
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One Third of the Amazon Has Been Degraded by Human Activities
Study after study has sounded the alarm on the deteriorating Amazon rainforest. Plagued by deforestation, drought, fires and other human…
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