US government wants to tax bitcoin to reduce its environmental impact
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Brain fog: We are finally starting to understand what it is and how to treat it
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Plants send out 'distress calls' – but can other plants hear them?
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Mars’s gravitational pull may be strong enough to stir Earth’s oceans
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The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse
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Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?
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Blind cave fish offers lessons in how to survive starvation
[ad_1] Unlike most other animals, the cave-dwelling Mexican tetra doesn’t get a fatty liver when it is malnourished – and its secrets could lead to
Ketamine’s unlikely conversion from rave drug to mental health therapy
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Indigenous Australians have managed land with fire for 11,000 years
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