Science
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Earth is now gaining less heat than it has for several years
The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections, but a fall…
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How bad is vaping for your health? We’re finally getting answers
AS THE old joke goes, when I read about the dangers of smoking, I gave up reading. If you are…
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Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong
York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK Neale Clark/robertharding/Alamy I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small city in…
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Missed out on seeing the northern lights? Meta has you covered
The 17th Feedback Feedback is feeling peculiar. The mood swings are even more drastic than usual, to the point of…
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Electric skin patch could keep wounds free of infection
Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria can enter the body via skin wounds Scott Camazine/Alamy A patch that zaps the skin with electrical…
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Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars
The new battery could be assembled from Martian materials NASA When pushed into the smallest of cracks, water can be…
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Some wildfires grow twice as fast as they did two decades ago
Wreckage from the 2023 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii Rick Bowmer/Associated Press/Alamy Wildfires in the western US aren’t only growing bigger.…
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Your gut bacteria are at war – and force their enemies to switch sides
The gut microbiome is hugely diverse – and the microorganisms don’t live in harmony Shutterstock Your gut is a battleground…
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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time
Compounds called pyrenes have been detected in the Taurus molecular cloud ESO A complex form of carbon crucial for life…
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How creativity can be found in looking sideways at your goal
There is a tendency among how-to enthusiasts to talk about creativity as if it had fixed objectives: things you know…
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