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Colette Pichon Battle’s Plea for Climate Justice From the US Gulf
As the Re:WIRED GREEN event on addressing climate change drew to a close yesterday, the weather underlined the urgency in…
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew just 352 kilometres above Jupiter’s moon Europa, sending back extraordinarily detailed images of the surface Space…
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Genetic test for cancer is less accurate for Black and Asian people
By Grace Wade The number of genetic changes detected in a tumour can help doctors determine which treatment option is…
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Recycling one of the planet’s trickiest plastics just got a little easier
Polyethylene is one of the world’s most commonly used plastics, found in bottles and packaging film, but it’s also one…
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Louis Pasteur’s 19th-century Medical Discoveries Are Still Saving Lives
Beer and wine were critical to the economy of France and Italy in the 1800s. It was not uncommon during…
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For ‘The First Lady of Engineering,’ Freedom Meant Facing Down Racism and Sexism … And Breaking Her Own Rules
When Y.Y. started college at Howard University as a mechanical engineering student, there were three things she swore she’d never…
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Truth under Attack
Truths should be stubborn things, right? Not in today’s society. A set of polls conducted this summer revealed about 70…
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This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it
Only a few years ago, the clear, shallow waters of Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon off eastern Spain that is…
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Violent conflict in Myanmar linked to boom in fossil amber research, study claims
For the past decade, paleontologists have increasingly been using a unique window to peer into the past: amber—blobs of hardened…
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Climate Justice Is Possible—Just Look Beyond Technology
Work towards those kinds of alternative futures is already happening. “No community is waiting for people to save them,” said…
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