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Oregon Is Burning Trees in Order to Save Them
With a fast response, they were able to keep it restricted to the “generally infested area,” an 89-square-mile tract of…
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US army to 3D print concrete buildings and bridges in disaster areas
By David Hambling A 3D-printed concrete building, constructed as part of the Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures programme US Army…
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A Plot Twist for Climate Change, the Power of Occam’s Razor, and Other New Books
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe Atria/One Signal, 2021 ($27)…
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USB-C chargers: Will EU law cut down on e-waste or just anger Apple?
By Matthew Sparkes A Lightning cable (below) and USB-C cable (above) nikkimeel / Alamy Every new smartphone, tablet, camera and…
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New Digital Tool Tracks Impacts of Offshore Wind on Marine Life
The Nature Conservancy has released a new mapping tool designed to show the potential impact that thousands of offshore wind…
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How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago
By Michael Le Page A wild chimpanzee walking through a forest Shutterstock / Alexwilko Around 25 million years ago, our…
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Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of its ‘Snowball Earth’ Phase
The drop stones in the tropical rocks were among the first clues that something strange once happened to planet Earth. Drop…
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The Blueprints of Health
Credit: Scientific American Health & Medicine, Vol. 3, Issue No. 5 Advertisement Medicine accomplished a huge feat at the start…
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They may have founded Rome, then vanished. New work sheds light on the mysterious Etruscans
Centuries before the rise of the Roman Republic, a different culture dominated the Italian Peninsula: The Etruscans, a sophisticated civilization…
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How the James Webb Space Telescope Works
Our knowledge of the universe is bound by the scope of our senses, but our minds know no such limits.…
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