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Climate change and expanding wildland-urban interfaces have increased exposure of people and infrastructure to wildfires Researchers call for stronger preparedness, prevention as wildfire seasons grow longer A forest fire on the outskirts of Paris has fueled concerns among scientists that dangerous wildfires are no longer confined to Europe’s traditional high-risk regions. The Fontainebleau Forest wildfire…

If you’re reading this while the blinds are drawn against yet another heat wave and wondering whether it’s finally time to buy an air conditioner, you’re far from alone. At the end of June, as temperatures climbed well above 40 degrees Celsius across Europe, shoppers in France literally forced their way into stores to snatch…

What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometres from Earth? For China’s Tianwen-2 mission, the answer was a four hundred day chase covering roughly a billion kilometres of deep space, one that has just ended in success. The China National Space Administration has confirmed that the…

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For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and artificial bodies that not only think but also feel, and are both intelligent and conscious. For the vast majority of this time, this prospect seemed very distant; a topic for science fiction and…