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COVID Showed Us How Ingenuity, Speed, and Collaboration Can Save the Planet

We must prioritise research and the application of groundbreaking solutions to the climate crisis, and roll them out quickly

How Adivasis Are Fighting to Protect Their Sacred Groves From Destruction

On the morning of March 7, hundreds of Adivasis dressed in traditional garb formed a human chain in the city of Ranchi.

The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants

From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world.

A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.

George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone.

Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim

Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field — according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists today. The findings are controversial but intriguing, researchers told Nature.

Painkillers without the addiction? The new wave of non-opioid pain relief

In January, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new type of painkiller in more than two decades. The decision roused excitement across the healthcare sector for a key reason: the drug, which is called suzetrigine and sold under the brand name Journavx, is not an opioid.

Want to stay young? Peter Diamandis says survive the next 10 years

Peter Diamandis, a futurist with degrees from both MIT and Harvard, has spent much of the past two decades evangelizing a vision of an “abundant future” driven by exponential technologies that will lengthen our lives.

Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system

As a young girl growing up in the former Soviet Union, Evelina Fedorenko PhD ’07 studied several languages, including English, as her mother hoped that it would give her the chance to eventually move abroad for better opportunities.

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift.

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Everything you need to know to keep your teeth healthy

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. With age comes a greater risk that things will go wrong with your teeth. Among adults, procedures such as filling cavities tend to peak in your early to mid-50s, according to the Health Policy Institute.

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Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen'

Nestled between Hawaii and the western coast of Mexico lies the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a 4.5 million-kilometer-square area of abyssal plain bordered by the Clarion and Clipperton Fracture Zones.

AlphaFold is running out of data — so drug firms are building their own version

You have full access to this article via your institution. AlphaFold, the revolutionary, Nobel prize-winning tool for predicting protein structures, has a problem: it’s running low on data.

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How Adivasis Are Fighting to Protect Their Sacred Groves From Destruction

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A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.

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Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

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Everything you need to know to keep your teeth healthy

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Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen'

AlphaFold is running out of data — so drug firms are building their own version

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