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Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
Eucalyptus has become the region’s new lifeblood. “I’m going to plant some eucalyptus / I’ll get rich and you’ll fall in love with me,” sings a local country duo. -
Carbon Meteorites Go Boom: The Explosive Secret Hiding Their Violent Pasts
Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new experiments reveal the truth: impacts on these meteorites trigger explosive chemical reactions that create intense gases,…
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Humans Almost Went Extinct 930,000 Years Ago—This Genetic Bottleneck Changed Us Forever!
A groundbreaking study has revealed that human ancestors faced a catastrophic population collapse nearly 930,000 years ago, nearly driving the species to extinction. Researchers utilized modern DNA techniques to uncover evidence of a genetic…
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Water bears get micro tattoos in wild test of living electronics
Tardigrades, a microscopic marvel, are known for their incredible resilience. These creatures are now getting tattooed.
Also known as “water bear,” these are just half a millimeter long, with eight adorable (and surprisingly sturdy)…
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Remembering Pope Francis and his visit to typhoon-hit Philippines
Pope Francis was well known for his environmental activism. Time called him the “Climate Pope” for his prominent role in the global climate movement. He consistently talked…
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Machine Learning Engineers Bespoke Cas9 Enzymes for Gene Editing
In a new study published in Nature titled, “Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning,” researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have developed a…
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Multi-disciplinary scientists are ready to solve global chemical pollution | Opinion
The world is facing a growing crisis of chemical pollution and waste mismanagement. In January the World Health Organisation said that ‘in 2016 around 13.7 million deaths in the world – 24% of all fatalities – were linked to modifiable…
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Simple blood test could enable detection of Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge | Research
A non-invasive PCR test that measures the ratio between two biomarkers could help detect Parkinson’s disease long before symptoms appear.
‘In many respects, neurodegenerative diseases today are where cancer was 50 years ago, namely when you…
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One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail
Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating as it orbits perilously close to its star. The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the…
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Astronomers Confirm First Known Rogue Black Hole, And It’s Wandering Our Galaxy
The universe is big, weird, and filled with unexpected things. It’s the reason we send space probes to far reaches of our solar system and into deep space, it’s the reason we build telescopes, and it’s the reason we send astronauts hurdling…
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