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How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate
Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology -
Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are discarded...
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In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s
Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the...
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We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they’re here anyway
Even the most cutting-edge AI models are prone to presenting fabrication as fact, dispensing dangerous information and failing to...
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BBC Inside Science – Is the Earth warming faster than we expected? – BBC Sounds
Available for 34 daysThis week new research suggests that in recent years the Earth has been warming faster than we predicted. But scientists are undecided on whether this change is going to be permanent. Laura Wilcox, Professor of Aerosol-Climate...
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Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive
Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture and expanding communities...
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Why shadow tankers are the only ships still moving through the Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, oil tanker traffic through the world’s most critical oil shipping choke...
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How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology
Joseph Paradiso thinks that the most engaging research questions usually span disciplines. Paradiso was trained as a physicist and...
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Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk
You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.They include lithium and...
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Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink
In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it’s snowing. This “marine snow” is...
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Explosion at Amsterdam Jewish school ‘a deliberate attack’ says mayor
Security had been increased at Jewish public institutions following an earlier incident in Rotterdam.
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