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How to Build a Hurricane-Proof House
They couldn’t sleep. A hurricane was lashing their brand-new house with a torrent of wind and rain. Deborah Rodriguez and…
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Heating Up
Extreme Wildfires Have Doubled in Frequency and Intensity in the Past 20 Years
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It feels like we are getting used to…
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Power Naps
How the Brain Decides What to Remember
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. György Buzsáki first started tinkering with waves when he was…
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Rollback
The Supreme Court Is Gutting Protections for Clean Water and Safe Air
This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US environmental law is a relatively…
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No Leap Second To Be Added To Universal Time in 2024, IERS Says – Slashdot
No Leap Second To Be Added To Universal Time in 2024, IERS Says (datacenterdynamics.com) Posted by msmash on Friday July…
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Dot Physics
How to Run on the Moon
In the future I’m sure there will be a city on the moon. We know how to get there, it’s…
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Long Haul
How a Group of Butterflies Managed to Fly 4,200 Kilometers Without Stopping
THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. The dozen butterflies were flying gracefully over…
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Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life
“The adoption of new ideas and the pace of change in health care can lag behind other innovations that consumers…
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Coffee, Eggs and White Rice Linked To Higher Levels of PFAS in Human Body – Slashdot
Posted by msmash on Thursday July 04, 2024 @01:02PM from the new-scare-unlocked dept. New research aimed at identifying foods that…
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Public Health
US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine
The US government will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine against a pandemic influenza—an award given as…
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