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Is this déjà vu? “Getting it done” was the tagline for Climate Week 2022, just like last year. That’s appropriate — although I’d prefer “Getting real.” The systemic challenges of the “decisive decade,” to cut global emissions in half by 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement, are so enormous that they can only be
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Huck Cycles, a North Carolina electric moped maker, is finding that its off-road optimized electric moped is actually proving quite popular for city riders as well. It’s a surprising finding, considering the bike was originally designed for hunters, campers and other outdoor enthusiasts that wanted a powerful but (relatively) lightweight electric two-wheeler. The bike was
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The government of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has looked to boost the country’s chipmaking prowess. Money Sharma | AFP | Getty Images India could have a large role to play in the semiconductor industry, analysts say, as the world’s fifth-largest economy looks to boost its domestic chip sector. Along with other countries like the
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WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft is on course to deliberately collide with a small asteroid Sept. 26 to test how that technique could be used to deflect a potentially hazardous asteroid. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, launched last November, is on a trajectory to collide with Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the larger
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This is an excerpt from DIRECT. Copyright 2022 by Kathryn Judge. Reprinted here with permission from Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Sustainable Jeans Since I have no aspiration of ever sitting in a corner office, it is easy for me to criticize the lack of executive accountability. But there are times that I
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Early-career researchers in marine science face grim conditions in their field.Credit: Getty Unpaid labour, mental-health disorders, discrimination and abuse are rampant concerns in marine science, according to a survey of students and early-career researchers in the field1. Of the 492 respondents to the survey, conducted globally between 1 April and 5 May 2020, nearly three-quarters
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Scientists have discovered that a significant portion of fish, 75%, intended for human consumption may contain microplastics. One expert stated that whether or not one chooses to consume fish is a “personal choice.” Until now, seafood has generally been regarded as a healthy choice but the study raises the question of whether this still holds.
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PARIS — Axiom Space will fly two astronauts from Saudi Arabia, one of them a woman, to space as soon as next year, the company and the Saudi government announced Sept. 22. The Saudi Space Commission said it had created the country’s first astronaut program that would fly a man and a woman to space
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A new Japanese research effort will work on vaccines for infectious diseases, including coronaviruses, monkeypox and dengue virus.Credit: Eugene Hoshiko/AP/Shutterstock After recognizing that Japan was slow to develop vaccines for COVID-19, the government has pledged to invest US$2 billion in a vaccine-research initiative to ensure that the country is ready to respond promptly to future