A Hive Mind of Doctors Benefits Patients
If you’re like an unlucky 5% of American adults, you’ll visit a doctor with a medical complaint this year, only to be misdiagnosed and, often, misprescribed a…
Read moreSingapore to Build World’s Largest Facility to Remove Carbon From the Ocean_1
The Equatic Process, a novel carbon removal technology and one of the best inventions of 2023, is getting a major scale-up, with the world’s largest ocean carbon…
Read moreExtended Loneliness Can Make You More Vulnerable to Extremist Views
A few weeks ago, I was shopping at my local gardening store here in Asheville, North Carolina, when I got some unsolicited advice about prepping for the…
Read moreThe James Webb Space Telescope’s Mission Is Unfolding As Expected
When it comes to superstitions, NASA and baseball see the world in different ways. It’s one of baseball’s unwritten rules that when a pitcher is throwing a…
Read moreThe Climate Rifts Biden and Modi Couldn’t Heal
Listening to President Biden and his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk last week, it would be easy to think the two countries were leading partners…
Read moreThe Science Behind a Bizarre ‘Ice Circle’ in Maine
Nature loves to make things round: planets, soap bubbles, oranges, eyeballs, the circular swirl of a spinning hurricane. A lot of forces are at play in favoring…
Read moreA Methane Pledge Is the First Good News Out of COP26. Nothing Else Will Be as Easy
Tuesday’s announcement that more than 100 countries have joined a U.S. and E.U.-led coalition to cut 30% of methane emissions by 2030 injected a welcome burst of…
Read moreBig businesses from Apple to Walmart say train suppliers to stamp out slavery
In recent years modern-day slavery has increasingly come under the global spotlight, putting ever greater regulatory and consumer pressure on firms to ensure their supply chains are…
Read moreAzerbaijan pins hope on revival of cotton sector
Stating that higher cotton yields were urgently needed to replenish Azerbaijan’s greatly diminished state coffers, Aliyev has issued an order on government support to boost cotton-growing in…
Read moreCambodian garment makers seek continued support after EU trade access threat
The United States stopped election support for Cambodia and the European Union threatened trade preferences after the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party was dissolved at the…
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