Science & Health: Space, Medicine, Climate Change And Humans
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Vapes and E-cigs Are Creating a New Waste Pandemic
Vaping, or using electronic cigarettes, not only pollutes the surrounding air, it also creates a new contaminated e-waste stream. Australian waste management authorities are just beginning to tackle this problem, as schools’ stockpiles of confiscated vapes continue to grow. As researchers of issues to do with the so-called circular economy, we take a keen interest…
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Snakes Can Hear You Scream, New Research Reveals
Experts have long understood that snakes can feel sound vibrations through the ground – what we call “tactile” sensing – but we’ve puzzled over whether they can also hear airborne sound vibrations, and particularly over how they react to sounds. In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, we conclude snakes use hearing to help…
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What You Should Know About the New Marburg Virus Outbreak
What we know so far.
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See Perseverance’s Collection of Rock Samples Scattered Across Martian Surface
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s.