This year marks the UK's National Year of Reading, which aims to rebuild good reading habits and enjoyment as child and adolescent reading declines year on year. Reading enjoyment is at its lowest ...
The internet and social media platforms have given rise to a rising wave of misinformation, with many users now posting fake ...
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Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch
When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic "Silent Spring" in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might ...
Quartz crystals are difficult to knap due to size, hardness, and crystalline structure, making them a "low-quality" raw ...
In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...
Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections ...
Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...
On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is ...
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Venice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it
Venice has coexisted with the sea throughout its 1,500-year history, perhaps better than any other city on Earth. Yet over ...
You might know the short-tailed shearwater and sable shearwater by the common name "muttonbirds." These two species of ...
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change ...
At some highly selective colleges and universities, cohorts of mostly white, wealthy applicants have three to eight times ...
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