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NASA's First Asteroid Samples Land On Earth After Release From Spacecraft | Marcia Dunn
This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface near the parachute after landing to Earth, Sunday Sept. 24 2023. Credit: ...
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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar ...
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Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life | Stanford University
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sept. 18 (Phys.org) -- The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many ...
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How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing
Francis Goodwin asks Bing: How to stop and reverse global warming? July 28, 2023 (Bing) -- Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and its inhabitants. It is caused by the accumulation of ...
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Transphobia | Wikipedia
Transphobic graffiti in Rome, meaning "trans out" in German, with a swastika. Atreliu, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia May 13, 2023 Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, ...
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Did Entheogens Cause Human Intelligence? | Bard
LSD Blotter Paper. David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsBard -- World News Trust May 13, 2023 There is no scientific consensus on whether entheogens, or psychoactive plants and ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson
Justin Jackson -- Phys.org March 29, 2023 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional ...
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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome | John Michael Greer
Feb. 2, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) --Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out ...
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Human gut bacteria have sex to share vitamin B12 | University of California - Riverside
Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Dec. 1, 2022 (Phys.org) -- Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 ...
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Towards Quantum Simulation Of False Vacuum Decay | University of Cambridge
Measured momentum distribution of the shaken quantum gas during the phase transition. The central peak on the left corresponds to the initial Mott insulator while the two peaks on the right indicate ...
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