Apple Launches Powerful New iPad, ‘Air Tags’ to Track Lost Items
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Ah, wilderness! Is nature the tonic we’ve needed for pandemic malaise?
As Covid-19 descended across the world, people sought refuge in gardens, parks and the woods. But it’s hard to measure how being in nature affects our well-being — and how we can best reap its rewards.
today • ~17 min
Aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, MOXIE creates oxygen on Mars
Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
today • ~3 min
Do you really need 8 glasses of water a day? An exercise scientist explains why your kidneys say 'no'
If kidneys could talk, they'd tell you not to overdo the water rule you hear all the time. But since they can't talk, they do send signals to your body that enough is enough.
today • ~8 min
Climate change: Shipping industry calls for new global carbon tax
The global shipping industry wants governments to tax their carbon emissions as they try to tackle climate change
today • ~5 min
How giant sauropods got their strange skulls
New research clarifies how sauropod dinosaurs, such as Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Brachiosaurus, evolved their unusual skulls.
today • ~5 min
Dead Sea Scrolls: two scribes probably wrote one of the manuscripts
The researchers used machine learning to study the 2,000-year-old document.
today • ~6 min
Climate change: EU to cut CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030
The EU's climate-change goals of becoming climate neutral by 2050 will become legally binding.
today • ~3 min
Lyrid meteor shower: Skywatchers set for sunrise or sunset view on Thursday
The best time to view it will be early morning or after sunset on Thursday, astronomers say.
today • ~2 min
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