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An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country needs for batteries, ...
Dark-coloured cars can make a measurable difference on nearby air temperature, and in cities of millions the effect can add ...
The failure to agree a global treaty on plastic pollution highlights how the UN’s requirement for unanimity holds back environmental policy, but there are better ways to make progress ...
Alzheimer’s Society, Innovate UK and Challenge Works have launched the Longitude Prize on Dementia – a competition with a £4million prize fund to find innovators who can create ground-breaking ...
Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping the orbits of objects beyond Neptune ...
Die Carl Remigius Fresenius Education Group ist eines der größten privaten und unabhängigen Bildungsunternehmen in ...
Original Equipment Solutions (OESL) entwickelt sich mit über 17.000 Mitarbeitern und einem Jahresumsatz von 2 Milliarden Euro zu einem eigenständigen, weltweit führenden Unternehmen im Automobilsektor ...
Feeding rats edible microbeads designed to absorb fat helps them lose weight. One day the beads could be used in human foods and drinks to prevent or treat obesity in people.
Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is removed, but now a study in people has turned that idea on its head ...
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A reader explains the adaptations that let squirrels make this gravity-defying manoeuvre - which a cat could only dream of ...
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...