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How Cohousing Neighborhoods Can Combat the Rise of Loneliness These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.

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Could This Radical Vision of a Neighborhood Help Reduce Loneliness?

These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.

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Doctor Who’s Time Lords Have Two Hearts. Here’s How Their Dual Cardiac System Could Work A Doctor Who superfan explains how the unusual cardiovascular system of the alien Time Lords could evolve and function

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Doctor Who’s Time Lords Have Two Hearts. Here’s How Their Dual Cardiac System Could Work

A Doctor Who superfan explains how the unusual cardiovascular system of the alien Time Lords could evolve and function

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Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and public health advocates argue in a new petition

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Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues

Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and public...

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Summers Are Hotter than Ever and Are Only Going to Get Worse The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

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This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Summer Heat

The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

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Tiny Spheres Key to Tunable ‘Smart Liquid’ Programmable liquids could aid robot grippers, shock absorption, acoustics, and more

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Tiny Spheres Key to Tunable ‘Smart Liquid’

Programmable liquids could aid robot grippers, shock absorption, acoustics, and more

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These Gray Whales Are Shrinking and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why Gray whales in a small group that sticks close to the shores of the Pacific Northwest appear to be shrinking—and shockingly quickly

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These Gray Whales Are Shrinking, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why

Gray whales in a small group that sticks close to the shores of the Pacific Northwest appear to be shrinking—and shockingly quickly

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We Already Know the Dangers of Nukes in Space A nuclear explosion in space would cause stunning auroras—and wreak havoc on satellites and space stations.

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Satellites and Space Stations Beware—Nukes in Space Could Threaten the Skies

A nuclear explosion in space would cause stunning auroras—and wreak havoc on satellites and space stations.

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China Has Plans for the World’s Largest Particle Collider China wants to build a next-generation particle collider that would be cheaper and more powerful than Europe’s planned successor to the Large Hadron Collider

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China Has Plans for the World’s Largest Particle Collider

China wants to build a next-generation particle collider that would be cheaper and more powerful than Europe’s planned successor to the Large Had...

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0524--cumulative The advent of “cumulative culture”—teaching others and passing down that knowledge—may have reached an inflection point around the time Neandertals and modern humans split from a common ancestor

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Humans Started Passing Down Knowledge to Future Generations 600,000 Years Ago

The advent of “cumulative culture”—teaching others and passing down that knowledge—may have reached an inflection point around the time Nea...

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Releasing Baby Cane Toads Teaches Predators to Avoid Toxic Adults Australian conservationists introduced juvenile cane toads ahead of invasions to help prepare native monitor lizards

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Releasing Baby Cane Toads Teaches Predators to Avoid Toxic Adults

Australian conservationists introduced juvenile cane toads ahead of invasions to help prepare native monitor lizards

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Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Produced $32 Billion in Climate Damage The first two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine have produced 175 million tons of carbon dioxide

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Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Produced $32 Billion in Climate Damage

The first two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine have produced 175 million tons of carbon dioxide

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The Physics of Breakdancing, a New Olympic Sport Breakdancing will hit the global stage at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and this physicist is excited to break down the science

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The Physics of Breakdancing, a New Olympic Sport

Breakdancing will hit the global stage at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and this physicist is excited to break down the science

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Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more than six months

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Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations

NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more than...

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Dodge Summer Germs with Tips from a Microbiologist From hiking to barbecuing and gardening to swimming, the opportunities for summer fun can also pose health risks. Here’s how to stay safe this summer

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How to Avoid Summer Germs

From hiking to barbecuing and gardening to swimming, the opportunities for summer fun can also pose health risks. Here’s how to stay safe this su...

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Ecological Restoration Began with the Wild and Wonderful Gardens of Early Female Botanists Historian and ecologist Laura J. Martin rediscovers the female scientists who established ecological restoration in her book Wild by Design

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Inside the Wild and Wonderful Gardens of the Early Botanists in Ecological Restoration

Historian and ecologist Laura J. Martin rediscovers the female scientists who established ecological restoration in her book Wild by Design

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Clean Energy Spending Will Surpass $2 Trillion This Year Investments in carbon-free energy will be twice as large as fossil fuel spending in 2024, the International Energy Agency predicts

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Clean Energy Spending Will Surpass $2 Trillion This Year

Investments in carbon-free energy will be twice as large as fossil fuel spending in 2024, the International Energy Agency predicts

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Atom-Thick Gold Coating Sparks Scientific ‘Goldene Rush’ Ultrathin gold was achieved with the help of a century-old sword-making technique

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You’ve Heard of Graphene. Now Say Hello to Goldene

Ultrathin gold was achieved with the help of a century-old sword-making technique

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Millions of Joro Spiders Are Moving Up the East Coast. Here's What to Expect Millions of hand-size Joro spiders are moving up the East Coast. Don’t panic

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No Need to Panic about the Joro Spiders

Millions of hand-size Joro spiders are moving up the East Coast. Don’t panic

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First Promethium ‘Complex’ Created, Revealing Mysterious Element’s Secrets Promethium, one of the rarest and most mysterious elements in the periodic table, has finally given up some crucial chemical secrets

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Chemists Finally Made a Compound Containing Mysterious Element Promethium

Promethium, one of the rarest and most mysterious elements in the periodic table, has finally given up some crucial chemical secrets

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Do Scientists Make Good Presidents? Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in science and engineering.

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Do Scientists Make Good Presidents?

Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in scien...