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WEB50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed. Worker exposure to vinyl chloride became tightly regulated after the chemical was linked with liver cancer. Now, its use may be on the ...
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WEBJul 25, 2014 · By Emily Conover August 26, 2024. Physics. Using a laser and an electron beam, the microscope can snap images of moving electrons every 625 quintillionths of a second. By Skyler Ware August 21 ...
Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence …
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · The concern, and the studies, come from statistics showing that social media use in teens ages 13 to 17 is now almost ubiquitous. Two-thirds of teens report using TikTok, and some 60 percent of ...
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WEB4 days ago · A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big. Decreased protection from cosmic radiation may have increased oxygen levels in the atmosphere and oceans, allowing animals ...
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WEBSep 6, 2024 · Health & Medicine. Infections from drug-resistant bacteria have skyrocketed over the last 50 years. Now, new technologies could help doctors save lives. By Maria Temming August 23, 2024. Health ...
How physicists revealed subatomic particles and cracked matter’s ...
WEBThe paradigm held back theoretical descriptions of the neutron and the positron, two particles found one after the other in 1932. And another would-be new particle, the neutrino, proposed in 1930 ...
Our climate change crisis - Science News
WEBMar 10, 2022 · The climate change emergency. Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as ...
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WEB4 days ago · By Sujata Gupta March 19, 2024. By studying the brains and behaviors of parrots, scientists hope to learn more about how humanlike intelligence evolves. By Erin Garcia de Jesús January 26, 2024 ...
Mass shootings and gun violence in the United States are increasing
WEBMay 26, 2022 · On May 24, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two teachers were killed by a shooter. Just 10 days earlier, a white gunman was accused of a racially motivated shooting in a ...