In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
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Researchers have discovered that children’s brains can contain cells with their mother’s DNA and that these cells can persist for decades. The findings, which were posted to the preprint database bioRxiv June 10 but have not been peer-reviewed yet, are part of a growing body of work showing that a mother and fetus exchange cells…
Fat tissue is often viewed as something the body would be better off without. Scientists now know, however, that adipose tissue is an active and essential organ that supports many important processes, including energy storage, hormone production, and metabolic regulation. Too much fat can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems….
Researchers estimate that halving the Earth’s human population gradually over 200 years could ease our negative impacts such as decreased wildlife populations and increased carbon emissions. Biodiversity loss, resource consumption rates, and pollution levels are strongly linked to human population size, they observe in the study published in the journal Sustainable Development. The progression to…
How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at more than twelve kilometres every second? That was the challenge facing the control team behind ESA’s Hera mission, who have just pulled off exactly that feat, leaving the spacecraft ready to begin the most important phase of…
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