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Fusion power may run out of fuel before it even gets started
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF In 2020, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories delivered five…
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We Can’t Let Monkeypox Turn into a Repeat of COVID
Monkeypox is spreading: there have been more than 3,000 confirmed cases of this virus in over 40 countries, and the…
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Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert
As global temperatures rise, desert climates have spread north by up to 100 kilometres in parts of Central Asia since…
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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
Deep in the human gut, myriad “good” bacteria and other microbes help us digest our food, as well as keep…
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How much do food miles matter and should you buy local produce?
Despite a study claiming that food-mile emissions are higher than previously thought, eating less animal produce remains much more important…
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Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn
Scientists have been raising growing concerns for decades over the use of toxic “forever chemicals,” so called because their strong…
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Beleaguered beagle facility closes under government pressure. Fate of 3000 dogs unclear
Facing growing financial and legal hurdles, a company that owns a troubled research beagle breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, said…
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When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?
Have you ever been gripped by the suspicion that nothing is real? A student at Stevens Institute of Technology, where…
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Has Google’s LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?
Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has claimed that the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence is sentient, but the expert consensus…
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Heated Debate Persists over the Origins of Complex Cells
For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling…
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