Month: November 2023

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In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, New Marine Ecosystems Are Flourishing

Tim Brinkhof, Knowable Magazine 21/11/2023

Sea life, stuck to plastic bottles and other human...

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Fossils Are Shaped by People. Does That Matter?

Asher Elbein 20/11/2023

Preparing a fossil is often more of an art...

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Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse Calls for an Immediate Scientific Review of the Char Dham Project

C.P. Rajendran 19/11/2023

The exponential increase in the incidences of landslides in...

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Speedy Downloads: Why NASA Is Turning to Lasers For Next-Gen Space Comms

John Johnson Jr, Knowable Magazine 18/11/2023

Photo: NASA/Ben Smegelsky. NASA’s recently launched asteroid hunter, Psyche,...

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Does the Odd-Even Scheme Bring Down Delhi’s Air Pollution Levels?

Jyoti Pande Lavakare 09/11/2023

Vehicles in New Delhi. Representative image. Photo: lingaraj/Flickr, CC...

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US: How the Cooking Gas Industry Undermined Climate Science in the 1970s

Jonathan Levy 08/11/2023

The gas industry relied on Hill & Knowlton, the...

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Water Corridors Helped Homo Sapiens Disperse Out of Africa

Katherine Kornei 07/11/2023

Wetland conditions during the last interglacial period in parts...