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How Buenos Aires boosted gender equality — by getting women on bikes
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Galactic gas can help unveil what dark matter is made of
The search for dark matter – an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe – is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 years ago and has been searched for intensely - with large particle colliders, detectors deep ...
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Scottish city to get ‘world’s largest’ fleet of hydrogen-powered garbage trucks
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, ...
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How corporations and SMBs can turn competition into collaboration
We can finally live out our Jetsons fantasies – almost. Pandemic permitting, in a few years we should be able to hire an aircraft to get from A to B. Volocopter’s drone-like, electric-powered helicopters will be cleared to take off with passengers in two to three years. During ...
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Uber competitor Ola banned in London over safety concerns
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and ...
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NASA's robot just landed on Bennu after 2 years — but its mission has only just begun
Relief showed clearly on the faces of the team of NASA scientists and engineers as they were told: “Touchdown is complete”. ...
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Meet Apep, the rare star system that could explode and kill us all
Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from ...
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Orionid will bring 20 shooting stars per hour — here’s how you can see it
The Orionid meteor shower takes place every October, and the peak of the display comes on October 20 and 21 this year. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, observers could see up to 20 shooting stars per hour. Annual meteor showers are usually the result of the Earth passing ...
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Honda kills off diesel motors in Britain and no one even noticed
Japanese carmaker Honda has ceased production of its last diesel powered HR-V for the UK market. It's petrol, hybrid, or ...
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The red giant star Betelgeuse is closer than we thought — will its explosion affect earth?
Betelgeuse is one of the best-known stars in the night sky, as well as the easiest to find. New examinations of this ...
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Countries won't sign this Moon exploration agreement because it's too ‘US-centric’
Eight countries have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of guidelines surrounding the Artemis Program for crewed exploration ...
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Why the moon’s early magnetic field might be responsible for life on earth
The habitability of a planet depends on many factors. One is the existence of a strong and long-lived magnetic field. These ...
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COVID-19 will probably become endemic – here's what that means
We can’t say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there ...
