Technology

Two new studies on Chernobyl were just released. The first shows that people who had high radiation exposure aren’t more likely to pass mutations on to their children than people who didn’t. The second shows that while the radiation alters the subjects’ DNA, it didn’t do so at dangerous levels.
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Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors. Astrophysicists say dark matter could be detected by measuring the effect it has on the temperature of exoplanets.
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California’s wildfire season has lengthened, and its peak is now earlier in the year. Over the past two decades, there has been a significant increase in “extreme” wildfires scorching more that 10,000 acres. Coinciding with that has been a rapid uptick in the frequency of small, human-caused blazes.
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California’s kelp forests are in trouble – but we need them to sequester CO2
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American Honey Still Contains Radioactive Fallout From Nuclear Tests Decades Ago
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Plastics that are programmed to self-destruct – finally, truly compostable
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Determination of the total number of carbon dioxide bubbles forming in a glass of lager along the entire natural degassing process.
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Socially transitioned transgender youth had similar levels of anxiety and depression as their cisgender peers.
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