23/07/27
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What Life in Barbie’s Dazzlingly Pink World Would Do to Her Brain—And Yours

The Barbie movie’s plastic pink world might not be that fantastic in real life

 

 

 

 

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23/07/21
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The loathsome lethal mosquito

Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting, mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years, they’ve gotten good at their job — sucking up to three times their weight in blood, totally undetected. So shouldn’t we just get rid of them?

 

 

 

 

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23/07/14
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Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun

A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting human-made, sun-blocking aerosols into the stratosphere would also alter thunderstorms and rainfall

 

 

 

 

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23/07/07
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Keep Forgetting Things? Neuroscience Says These 4 Simple Routines Significantly Boost Recall, Retention, and Long-Term Memory

Best of all, each one takes seconds, not hours. (Except for the part about getting a good night’s sleep, but you were going to do that anyway.)

 

 

 

 

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