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The Secret History Of Silicon Valley And The Toxic Remnants Of The First Computers
Today, Silicon Valley is a dreamy officescape, a place where ideas and networks are currency. But in the 1960s and ’70s, Silicon Valley proper manufactured hardware — and this industrial boom created one of the most polluted places in America.
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There’s A Vicious Cycle Between War And Severe Weather Emerging, And It Will Be Hard To Break
The world has changed a lot in the past 12 months, with political conflict focusing the world on immediate crises, not the distant future. But a group of scientists are are showing how these conflicts will affect our ability to adapt to climate change down the road — and our ability to survive as a…
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These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1700 Years
Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they have found another.
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There Are Strange Hot Spots On Giza’s Great Pyramid, And No One’s Quite Sure Why
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few weeks after a team of scientists began a project using novel scanning techniques to analyse Egypt’s major pyramids, they have discovered strange temperature anomalies — but it’s still unclear what’s causing them.