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COP 28 Is a Crunch Point for Countries on the Front Lines of Climate Change
In late October, a monster storm named Lola hit the Southern Hemisphere, a week before the official start of the…
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Commercial Airliner Is First to Cross Atlantic with Biofuel Power
November 29, 2023 3 min read Virgin Atlantic flew the first large commercial jet to traverse the Atlantic with 100…
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The Second Most Powerful Cosmic Ray in History Came from–Nowhere?
Stellar flares and supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and giant impacts—the universe has no shortage of ways to wallop our planet. Among…
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Why Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling
Tanya Lewis: Hi, this is Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: We bring you the latest…
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An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics
In October 2015 my time training mathematics teachers at a French high school in Port Vila, Vanuatu, was coming to…
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ECPR Could Prevent Many More Cardiac Arrest Deaths
Every year more than 300,000 people in the U.S. die from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, making it a leading cause…
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Cannabis derails train of thought, but may not affect long-term memory
Cannabis has complicated effects on memory MarkusBeck/iStockphoto The stereotype of a stoner – someone who uses copious amounts of cannabis…
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Earth’s Earliest Rocks Forged by Colliding Tectonic Plates
December 1, 2023 2 min read Our planet’s crust has been shifting and sliding for four billion years, a new…
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‘A Shot in the Arm’ Documentary Treats Vaccine Denialism with a Dose of Empathy
Global vaccination trends are telling us both good news and bad news stories, nearly four years after the start of…
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COP28: When is the climate summit and why is it being held in Dubai?
Sultan al-Jaber, the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, is president of COP28 Kamran Jebreili/Associated Press/Alamy World leaders, scientists,…
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