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WIRED Science

How Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Does It Take to Fuel a Hulk?

It takes a lot of energy to jump over cliffs and hurl rocks at the speed of sound?and that means eating at superhero capacity.

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WIRED Science

How Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Does It Take to Fuel a Hulk?

WIRED Science

How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse

Parched ground is less likely to absorb water and increases the risk of dangerous flash floods. But there are ways to mitigate these conditions.

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WIRED Science

How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse

WIRED Science

The Mini Missions Aboard the Artemis Rocket Pack a Big Punch

Ten tiny satellites will be hitching a ride en route to the moon, each with scientific objectives of their own.

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WIRED Science

The Mini Missions Aboard the Artemis Rocket Pack a Big Punch

WIRED Science

This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine

For a company called Colossal, bringing back the wolf-sized marsupial is one step in a larger, mammoth plan.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine

WIRED Science

Join Us for RE:WIRED Green

On September 28 we?ll bring together scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and more to spotlight ways that human ingenuity can fight the climate crisis.

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Join Us for RE:WIRED Green

WIRED Science

This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface

Implanted devices let people control computers and prosthetic limbs with their minds. But nobody knows how long they"ll last"and when they"ll need upgrades.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface

Singularity HUB

This Wild Personal Aircraft Goes 155 Miles Per Hour and Does Flips on Command

Ah flying cars, elusive symbol of the future. They're a cool, exciting idea that's technologically feasible, yet always just a few years away. Yet talk of flying cars"be they air taxis, driving drones, or personal eVTOLs"has ramped up recently, with several companies introducing concept vehicles and ...

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Singularity HUB

This Wild Personal Aircraft Goes 155 Miles Per Hour and Does Flips on Command

Singularity HUB

After Millennia of Agricultural Expansion, the World Has Passed "Peak Agricultural Land"

Humans have been reshaping the planet's land for millennia by clearing wildlands to grow crops and raise livestock. As a result, humans have cleared one-third of the world's forests and two-thirds of wild grasslands since the end of the last ice age. This has come at a huge cost to the planet's biodiversity. ...

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Singularity HUB

After Millennia of Agricultural Expansion, the World Has Passed "Peak Agricultural Land"

Singularity HUB

A New Vertical Farm Will Grow 3 Million Pounds of Mycelium a Year for Fungi-Based Bacon

Ask meat eaters and most would likely agree that one of the carnivorous delights non-meat-eaters are most missing out on is bacon. Salty, smoky, chewy, delectable on sandwiches, crumbled up in recipes, or eaten by hand'there's really nothing like it. Except now there is, according to startup MyForest ...

2 days ago

Singularity HUB

A New Vertical Farm Will Grow 3 Million Pounds of Mycelium a Year for Fungi-Based Bacon

Science - The Verge

To fight climate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch

Photo by Erhan Demirtas / NurPhoto via Getty Images If people around the world were as enthusiastic cyclers as they are in the Netherlands, we could cut an impressive amount of planet-heating pollution. The Dutch use bicycles to get around more than folks in any other country, ...

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Science - The Verge

To fight climate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch

Science - The Verge

A new way to smash the "forever" out of "forever chemicals"

Absorbent booms are used to contain aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) from spilling into the surface water in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, on February 7th, 2019. AFFF used in fighting fires can contain PFAS. | Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto via Getty Images "Forever ...

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Science - The Verge

A new way to smash the "forever" out of "forever chemicals"

Science - The Verge

Gummies are the next teen nicotine threat, feds say

Image: Krave Nic Flavored gummies are the new nicotine product in the crosshairs of the Food and Drug Administration, which is continuing its years-long crackdown on nicotine use by teens and young adults. The agency announced today that it issued a warning letter to Krave Nic, ...

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Science - The Verge

Gummies are the next teen nicotine threat, feds say

Science - The Verge

The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently

I look to the stars, and I see semicolons. | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI It turns out that JavaScript, the programming language that web developers and users alike love to complain about, had a hand in delivering the stunning images that the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

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Science - The Verge

The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently

Science - The Verge

Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Most popular period and pregnancy tracking apps don't have strong privacy protections, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Leaky privacy policies in health apps are always a problem, but issues that fall into this ...

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Science - The Verge

Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds

Yahoo Science

New study suggests covid increases risks of brain disorders

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New study suggests covid increases risks of brain disorders

Yahoo Science

Where has a drought been declared, and what does it mean?

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Where has a drought been declared, and what does it mean?

Yahoo Science

Food crops made 20% more efficient at harnessing sunlight

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Food crops made 20% more efficient at harnessing sunlight

Yahoo Science

Brain-eating amoeba suspected in 2nd Midwest death

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Brain-eating amoeba suspected in 2nd Midwest death

Yahoo Science

Mystery of half-billion year old creature with no anus solved

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Mystery of half-billion year old creature with no anus solved

Yahoo Science

No human will fly to the moon on NASA's Artemis I mission, but mannequins, zero-gravity indicators, and mementos are going ...

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Yahoo Science

No human will fly to the moon on NASA's Artemis I mission, but mannequins, zero-gravity indicators, and mementos are going ...

New York Times Science

The Juicy Secrets of Stars That Eat Their Planets

As scientists study thousands of planets around the galaxy, they are learning more about worlds that get swallowed up by their stars.

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New York Times Science

The Juicy Secrets of Stars That Eat Their Planets

New York Times Science

Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique

The harmful molecules are everywhere, but chemists have made progress in developing a method to break them down.

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New York Times Science

Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique

New York Times Science

The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier

A 3-D model developed by researchers suggests that the extinct megashark was fiercer than paleontologists previously imagined.

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New York Times Science

The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier

New York Times Science

African Crater Adds an Asteroid Strike to the Late Dinosaur Era

The impact that made the submarine depression probably occurred close to the dinosaur-ending Chicxulub event, but researchers say much remains to be learned.

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New York Times Science

African Crater Adds an Asteroid Strike to the Late Dinosaur Era

New York Times Science

How Chewing Shaped Human Evolution

An experiment revealed that chomping on slightly tougher material requires markedly more energy. Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution.

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New York Times Science

How Chewing Shaped Human Evolution

New York Times Science

NASA's Big Rocket Reaches Launchpad. Next Stop: The Moon.

The Space Launch System and Orion capsule will launch on Aug. 29 to formally start the Artemis moon exploration program

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New York Times Science

NASA's Big Rocket Reaches Launchpad. Next Stop: The Moon.

National Science Foundation

Legacy of ancient ice ages shapes how seagrasses respond to environmental threats today

Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported scientists looked at eelgrass communities " the"

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National Science Foundation

Legacy of ancient ice ages shapes how seagrasses respond to environmental threats today

National Science Foundation

Smoke from Western wildfires can influence Arctic sea ice, researchers find

Sea ice and wildfires may be more interconnected than previously thought, according to U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research published in Science Advances. By digging into the differences between climate models, researchers at the?

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National Science Foundation

Smoke from Western wildfires can influence Arctic sea ice, researchers find

National Science Foundation

Interaction between humans and the environment is focus of 15 new NSF-funded projects

From Southwestern deserts to tropical mangrove reefs, everywhere humans live or go we impact the environment, and the environment impacts us. Fifteen new projects totaling more than $21.6 million funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation will?

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National Science Foundation

Interaction between humans and the environment is focus of 15 new NSF-funded projects

National Science Foundation

Physicists research how aerosol particulates from wind instruments move through the air

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania supported by two grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation have studied the aerosols of musicians playing wind instruments. The findings will inform safety guidelines for not only musical?

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National Science Foundation

Physicists research how aerosol particulates from wind instruments move through the air