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WEBScientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain. By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the ...
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Are viruses alive? And why does it matter? | Science News
WEBNov 1, 2021 — In the 1800s, they were called biological particles. By the early 1900s, they’d been demoted to inert chemicals. Throughout, viruses have rarely been considered alive. More than 120 definitions ...
150 years ago, the periodic table began with one chemist’s vision
WEBJan 8, 2019 — 150 years ago, Mendeleev perceived the relationships of the chemical elements. REVOLUTIONARY Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev (shown around 1880) was the first to publish a periodic table, which ...
How physicists revealed subatomic particles and cracked matter’s ...
WEBThe paradigm held back theoretical descriptions of the neutron and the positron, two particles found one after the other in 1932. And another would-be new particle, the neutrino, proposed in 1930 ...
Mass shootings and gun violence in the United States are increasing
WEBMay 26, 2022 — On May 24, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two teachers were killed by a shooter. Just 10 days earlier, a white gunman was accused of a racially motivated shooting in a ...
Our climate change crisis - Science News
WEBMar 10, 2022 — The climate change emergency. Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as ...
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What lifestyle changes will shrink your carbon footprint the most?
WEBMay 14, 2020 — Americans, specifically, waste about 25 percent of the food we buy. According to Project Drawdown, adopting a vegetarian diet can also cut emissions, by about 63 percent, while going vegan can ...