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Stephen King leaving X over 'toxic' environment

Author Stephen King announced Thursday that he is leaving the social media platform X because of its “toxic” environment.  “I’m…

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Bio-based fibers could pose greater threat to the environment than conventional plastics

Bio-based materials may pose a greater health risk to some of the planet’s most important species than the conventional plastics…

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Depression: Dysfunction of neurons in the amygdala may be behind negative perceptions of the environment

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative…

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How playing songs to Darwin’s finches helped biologists confirm link between environment and the emergence of new species

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation — which holds that new species emerge…

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New data science tool greatly speeds up molecular analysis of our environment

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a computational workflow for analyzing large…

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Fruit flies’ visual navigation tactics differ by environment

The fruit flies that hover around the apples on your counter have to navigate a cluttered environment to find that…

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Study links neighborhood environment to prostate cancer risk in men with West African genetic ancestry

West African genetic ancestry was associated with increased prostate cancer among men living in disadvantaged neighborhoods but not among men…

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Politics

What will happen to the major environment, health protections Biden is set to leave unfinished?

From heat protections for workers to restrictions on toxic chemicals, the Biden administration is set to leave several of the…

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How plant cold specialists can adapt to the environment

Plant cold specialists like the spoonworts have adapted well to the cold climates of the Ice Ages. As cold and…

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Light-controlled artificial maple seeds could monitor the environment even in hard-to-reach locations

Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and the University of Pittsburgh, USA, have developed a tiny robot replicating the aerial dance…

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