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Fast fashion may seem cheap, but it's taking a costly toll on the planet and on millions of young customers
Fast fashion is everywhere—in just about every mall, in the feeds of influencers on social media promoting overconsumption, and in ads constantly popping up…
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Only by returning carbon to the ground is net zero truly possible
Negotiations at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are entering their second week after things got off to a rocky start.Even before the event started, many…
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Science and ethics: Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?
A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines * after publishing a report of …
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Why auroras have different colours
Why May 2024's aurora appeared a magenta colour over Japan?Around the world, the historic geomagnetic superstorm of late spring 2024 inspired millions of non-scientists around the world—many armed with highly sensitive smartphone cameras—to take a fantastic, unprecedented number of images of the…
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Why do dead bodies float in the water?
Q: Why do dead bodies float in the water?Krishna: That depends. Dead bodies in the water usually tend to sink at first, but later they tend to float. The reason? The average living body has a specific gravity very close to that of water. Buoyancy …
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Science and Ethics
When I was doing my masters course, during one of our semester practical exams I was asked to do a physiology experiment. I was asked to do a blood test. For that test I would have to kill a frog by inserting a sharp edged steel blade into the frog's cranial cavity and twisting it inside till the…
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Animals that behave differently in moonlight
Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a phenomenon so spectacular it can be seen from space.Not only does the moon's…
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The 'crystal balls' that can predict eruptions of volcanoes: Crystals hold a secret history of volcanoes—and clues about future eruptions
Imagine you had a crystal ball that revealed when a volcano would next erupt. For the hundreds of millions of people around the world …
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Ah! Another evolution episode before your own eyes!
Earlier I wrote about convergent evolution that took very little time(1). Now we have another story of rapid one to show the deniers!Deniers? ! Yes! Watch this video on how creationists confront the scientists asking them to show evidence of evolution over and over again : The times have changed.…
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Why airlines cancel flights after volcanic eruptions
At least three airlines cancelled flights between Australia and Bali this week after a volcano eruption in eastern Indonesia spewed a vast plume of…
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