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Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days
A combination of moist ocean weather cycles, low-pressure systems and climate change have combined to make 2022 the wettest year…
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Penis Worm’s Ancient Cousin Fossilized with Its Doughnut-Shaped Brain Intact
Scientists uncovered something unexpected in the fossilized embryo of a worm-like creature from the Cambrian period: the remains of a…
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Rediscovered Red Wolf Genes May Help Conserve the Species
Fionna M. D. Samuels: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Fionna Samuels. The red wolf once roamed a huge…
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Do You ‘Matter’ to Others? The Answer Could Predict Your Mental Health
In South Carolina a grieving mother whose son died by suicide hands out stickers to young people. The sticker bears the…
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Metal-enriched silkworm silk is one of the strongest materials ever
Standard silkworm silk has been made stronger than spider’s silk, one of the toughest materials known, by bathing it with…
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for reliable molecule-building tool
The 2022 Nobel prize for chemistry has been jointly awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for…
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Ships release invisible contrails that slightly cool the climate
The effect of aerosol pollution from shipping and other sources on clouds has been underestimated and may need to be…
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JWST and Hubble teamed up to take a stunning image of two galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observe the universe in different wavelengths, and combining their data…
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for a New Way of Building Molecules
Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery of methods to “click” molecular building blocks…
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Explorers of Quantum Entanglement Win 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in equal parts to Alain Aspect of the University of Paris-Saclay, John…
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