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Can farm and food waste power tomorrow’s airplanes?
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF It’s a painful truth for people who…
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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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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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Your Body May Be Able to Repair Its Arthritic Joints with Help from Drugs or Surgery
“Cartilage doesn’t heal.” That’s what doctors often tell us when we injure the flexible tissue that lines our hips, knees…
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Betelgeuse ‘Great Dimming’ Mystery Solved by Satellite Photobomb
In late 2019, mere months before the COVID-19 pandemic would engulf the globe, much of the world was instead concerned…
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A $100 genome? New DNA sequencers could be a ‘game changer’ for biology, medicine
For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems biologist at Stanford University.…
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Physicists Link Two Time Crystals in Seemingly Impossible Experiment
Physicists have created a system of two connected time crystals, which are strange quantum systems that are stuck in an…
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Tiny, Tumbling Origami Robots Could Help with Targeted Drug Delivery
A new kind of hollow, pea-sized robot can roll, flip and jump to navigate its surroundings. It can transition from…
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Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants
Hundreds of genetic variants may influence your risk of becoming severely ill with covid-19, a discovery that could lead to…
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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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