Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why
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Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope
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Looking for morbid romance? There’s a study for that
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Engineered bacteria destroy antibiotic resistance DNA in wastewater
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Your brain may be mutating in a way that was thought to be very rare
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Most climate policies do little to prevent climate change
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How shrinking populations could help to save our planet
[ad_1] In 1968, husband and wife biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a terrifying look at coming ecology-driven disasters. Our population growth,
Becoming Earth review: A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
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A glob of jelly can play Pong thanks to a basic kind of memory
[ad_1] Pong is a simple video game INTERFOTO/Alamy An inanimate glob of ion-laced jelly can play the computer game Pong and even improve over time.
Why do covid cases rise in summer, unlike other respiratory viruses?
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