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WEB4 days ago · Environment. The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is more than double the World Health Organization’s official count. By Claire Yuan August 15, 2024. 1 2 3 ...
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WEB4 days ago · A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big. Decreased protection from cosmic radiation may have increased oxygen levels in the atmosphere and oceans, allowing animals ...
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WEB4 days ago · By Sujata Gupta March 19, 2024. By studying the brains and behaviors of parrots, scientists hope to learn more about how humanlike intelligence evolves. By Erin Garcia de Jesús January 26, 2024 ...
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WEB50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed. Worker exposure to vinyl chloride became tightly regulated after the chemical was linked with liver cancer. Now, its use may be on the ...
Are viruses alive? And why does it matter? | Science News
WEBNov 1, 2021 · In the 1800s, they were called biological particles. By the early 1900s, they’d been demoted to inert chemicals. Throughout, viruses have rarely been considered alive. More than 120 definitions ...
How plate tectonics upended our understanding of Earth
WEBJan 13, 2021 · Kevin Schafer/Alamy Stock Photo. Plate tectonics describes how Earth’s entire, 100-kilometer-thick outermost layer, called the lithosphere, is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of plates — slabs of ...
What you need to know about giant, invasive joro spiders
WEBMarch 30, 2022 at 10:00 am. Some thumbnail-sized, brown male spiders in Georgia could be miffed if they paid the least attention to humans and our news obsessions. Recent stories have made much of ...