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Covid-19 news: Arthritis drug shows promise to treat severe cases
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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Will the Russian Invasion Accelerate Peak Oil?
It was 1973 when a war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led Saudi Arabia and other oil…
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Countries agree to end plastic pollution in ambitious global treaty
A legally binding agreement between 175 countries encompasses all stages of plastic’s life cycle, from production to consumption and disposal…
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Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm—with paper made from bananas
Potato cyst nematodes are a clever pest. These microscopic worms wriggle through the soil, homing in the roots of young…
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Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100,000 years?
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 375, Issue 6583. After passing through a security gate, the van…
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Purple ‘superfood’ tomato could finally go on sale in the US
A small company has applied for approval in the US to sell a genetically modified tomato that is rich in…
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The Pandemic Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics
A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect…
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Tracking Outbreaks Through Sewers, and Kids’ Vaccines on Hold Again | COVID Quickly, Episode 24
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…
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We Desperately Need to Modernize Climate Change Emissions Tracking
At the latest COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, young people from around the world were loudly protesting from the sidelines…
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Beaver Dams Help Wildfire-Ravaged Ecosystems Recover Long after Flames Subside
Oregon endured the third-largest wildfire in its recorded history last summer. The Bootleg Fire tore through the Upper Klamath Basin,…
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