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Category: 7. Science
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‘Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding’
A study has found that microplastics contribute to poor soil health and release heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
What’s happening?
Researchers at the Institute of Urban Environment at the Chinese Academy of Sciences looked into the effect of…
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We can visit interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS with spacecraft. Here’s how scientists say we’ll do it
Everything scientists have gleaned so far about interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS, they’ve gleaned by looking at them through a telescope.
And what a variety of telescopes scientists have at their disposal today.
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Astronomers Spot a White Dwarf That’s Still Consuming its Planets
When the Sun reaches the end of its main sequence, approximately 5 billion years from now, it will enter what is known as its Red Giant Branch (RGB) phase, during which it will expand and potentially consume Mercury, Venus, and possibly…
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Men and women’s eyes respond differently to spaceflight
Male astronauts most often showed eye changes after long missions, while female astronauts showed larger shifts in brain fluid near the top of the brain.
About 70 percent of ISS astronauts experience some vision-related change in orbit, a sobering…
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Six radical ways to cool the planet – The Times
- Six radical ways to cool the planet The Times
- Why “Dimming the Sun” Might Be the Most Dangerous Climate Fix Yet SciTechDaily
- What’s So Bad About Geoengineering? Bluedot Living
- Blocking sunlight to cool the Earth could heat up other…
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10-Year-Old Girl Stumbles Upon Dinosaur Footprints On A Welsh Beach
A quiet family walk along the windswept coast of South Wales turned into a discovery that astonished paleontologists. What began as a simple beach outing ended with a 10-year-old uncovering traces from the age of dinosaurs — five perfectly…
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99-million-year-old mosquito larva found in Myanmar amber
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Secret Atomic Patterns Have Been Discovered Hidden Inside Metals : ScienceAlert
When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, according to conventional wisdom – but new research challenges this thinking, revealing hidden atomic patterns that…
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Comet Lemmon captured above Muker in Yorkshire Dales
A photographer who captured a comet in the night sky above the Yorkshire Dales said he spent weeks waiting for the perfect moment for the shot.
Dominic Reardon, who lives Arnside, Cumbria, travelled to Muker in North Yorkshire to photograph Comet…
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