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An astrobiologist explains why invisible aliens could be among us
Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym “MRSGREN” to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, and nutrition. But Helen ...
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Scientists have discovered strange objects orbiting our galaxy’s black hole
Every major galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole, and our own Milky Way is no exception. Astronomers recently ...
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Exposure to air pollution could depend on your class, ethnicity, and gender
Poor air quality is responsible for over half a million deaths in Europe every year, but not everyone is equally at risk. Our new review found that across Europe, the most deprived people have the worst air quality. This means that the people already experiencing multiple deprivations ...
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How 'WhatsApp group admin' became one of the most powerful jobs in politics
When the British parliament asked the government in 2019 to publish the messages that key officials were sending to each other about Brexit via text message, email, Facebook, and messaging apps, it drew attention to the extent to which elected officials have been sidestepping official ...
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Australian bushfires didn’t just destroy specific species, but entire ecosystems
The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of newspapers the world over. An estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land have burned since 1 July 2019. At least 28 people have died. And over a billion ...
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AirPods can damage your hearing — here’s how Apple could prevent it
I want you to pause for a moment and think about how much time you spent listening to music today. Maybe it's 30 minutes? Or an hour? According to Nielsen Music, on average, Americans now spend just slightly more than 32 hours a week listening to music — that's approximately 4.5 ...
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The forgotten woman who discovered the greenhouse effect
When did we first realize that we had the potential to warm our planet’s climate? You could go all the way back to 1827, when French mathematician Joseph Fourier calculated that the atmosphere, somehow, was keeping the planet warm like a blanket. Or you could go as late as 1938 ...
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Animals use some wild tricks to survive bushfires
Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Australia’s bushfire season is far from over, ...
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Life will soon be like 'Her' — and we'll fall in love with AI
With each passing day, we're using artificial intelligence for a variety of purposes and jobs. It has penetrated almost every ...
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Why the extinction of mammoths may have forced us to invent civilization
Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But ...
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What science teaches us about breaking bad habits
It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up (cigarettes, ...
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Here's how body clock cycles affect our immune system
All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and ...
