Bill Gates Has a Master Plan for Battling Climate Change – The Wall Street Journal
A day before the inauguration, as Lady Gaga rehearsed “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Washington, D.C., wildfires burned in Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Ventura counties in California, shocking climatologists who had never witnessed the state’s fire season extend into January. NASA…
How one tiny country is beating the pandemic and climate change – Grist
Get weekly climate politics updates from Grist Subscribe to The First 100 The small Himalayan country of Bhutan, mainly known for measuring national happiness instead of GDP, is the only carbon-negative country on the planet. Believe it or not, it…
How global warming can cause Europe’s harsh winter weather – DW (English)
As Germans shiver through double-digit negative temperatures and more than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of snow in parts of the country, climate science deniers have taken to social media to argue that global warming is a hoax. Their claim —…
We Use 6 Billion Face Masks a DayâBut Scientists Have a Genius Way to Turn Them Into Roads
The idea of billions of people going through a few masks a week during this pandemic definitely rings alarm bells, but a team of researchers in Melbourne, Australia, may have the solution. Theyâve discovered that adding millions of discarded face masks to road-paving mixtures would actually lowered the cost of the road, while diverting billions […]
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She was Demoted, Doubted and Rejected But Now Her Work is the Basis of the Covid-19 Vaccine
The foundation of the COVID-19 vaccine, and many others, can be drawn back to the work of an intrepid immigrant to the United States from Hungary, whose never-say-die attitude and belief in her work led to one of the most important technological developments in vaccine research. Katalin Karikó is now being talked about for a […]
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Take This Test To See You if You Have a Face-Recognizing Superpower
If you find yourself doing double-takes at faces in crowds, you may have a strange and unique ability possessed by one person in three millionâthat of being a super-recognizer. Like comic books superheroes, super-recognizers live among us, and a simple online test from the University of Greenwich can reveal whether or now you are one […]
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Take This Test To See You if You Have a Face-Recognizing Superpower
If you find yourself doing double-takes at faces in crowds, you may have a strange and unique ability possessed by one person in three millionâthat of being a super-recognizer. Like comic books superheroes, super-recognizers live among us, and a simple online test from the University of Greenwich can reveal whether or now you are one […]
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Take This Test To See You if You Have a Face-Recognizing Superpower
If you find yourself doing double-takes at faces in crowds, you may have a strange and unique ability possessed by one person in three millionâthat of being a super-recognizer. Like comic books superheroes, super-recognizers live among us, and a simple online test from the University of Greenwich can reveal whether or now you are one […]
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Free online tool calculates risk of COVID-19 transmission in poorly-ventilated spaces
The vital role of ventilation in the spread of COVID-19 has been quantified by researchers, who have found that in poorly ventilated spaces, the virus spreads further than two meters in seconds, and is far more likely to spread through prolonged talking than through coughing.
Sweat, bleach and gym air quality: Chemical reactions make new airborne chemicals
One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new study. And notably, those human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality.
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