StratX raises $1.19M to tackle landfill methane with living biocovers
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Quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystals | Nature
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After one city cut checkout bags by 80 percent, records from 45,000 beach cleanups revealed the drifting plastic bag that fools sea turtles was tangling up 30 percent fewer animals along the shore
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Wildfire breaks out in Highland nature reserve famous for ospreys – BBC
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In November 1957, a stray dog from Moscow’s streets was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit in a capsule never designed to come home — and Soviet officials claimed for 45 years that Laika had died painlessly after several days, until a scientist admitted in 2002 she had died within hours when the thermal control failed.
On 3 November 1957, a small mongrel dog named Laika lay strapped inside a pressurised capsule roughly the…
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
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