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How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
Ten years ago scientists announced one of the most momentous discoveries in physics: the Higgs boson. The particle, predicted 48 years…
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UK’s largest carbon capture project will turn CO2 into baking soda
Tata Chemicals Europe’s plant at Northwich will eventually capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year for use in making…
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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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Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, UK Officials Warn
A strain of poliovirus that can sometimes cause paralysis has cropped up in the sewers of London and may be…
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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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Climate Destroyers Go to Jail, Martian Travel Guide, Bee Interiority, and More
Fiction Power on Trial In a future where people hold the perpetrators of the climate crisis to account, what has…
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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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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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Mice of the sea: Watch elephant seals use whiskers to find food
Female elephant seals spend most of their lives fishing in complete darkness. Now, by strapping infrared cameras to their heads,…
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Liquid mirror telescope opens in India
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has…
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