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Renewable Energy Is Surging, But Trouble Looms
CLIMATEWIRE | Global clean energy spending is expected to surge 12 percent in 2022, reaching $1.4 trillion as the world…
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African wild dogs give birth 22 days later than they did 30 years ago
African wild dogs like to breed at the coolest time of year, and climate change has shifted the average timing…
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Kids’ Vaccines at Last, and Challenges in Making New Drugs: COVID, Quickly, Episode 33
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemic.…
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You’re more likely to become friends with someone who smells like you
We subconsciously sniff people when we first meet them and are more likely to become friends with those who have…
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How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online
The Supreme Court’s decision to curtail abortion rights has come to fruition. One of the outcomes that will be less…
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Spray-On, Rinse-Off Food ‘Wrapper’ Can Cut Plastic Packaging
Packaging is essential for preserving and distributing many kinds of foods, but it often incorporates plastic—scraps of which already litter…
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We must accept we won’t meet 1.5°C climate target, says report
Social, political and technological inertia mean the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures is…
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75 per cent of the world’s top websites allow bad passwords
An analysis of 120 of the world’s top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including…
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Largest known bacteria in the world are visible to the naked eye
By Carissa Wong Thiomargarita magnifica is large enough to see without a microscope Tomas Tyml The world’s largest known bacteria…
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