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Man walking on wooden floor

Technology

Wooden floors laced with silicon generate electricity from footsteps

Wooden floors impregnated with silicon and metal ions can generate enough electrical power from human footsteps to power light bulbs or other small electrical appliances

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andre Penner/AP/Shutterstock (10753127a) Fire consumes land deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil Amazon Fires, Novo Progresso, Brazil - 23 Aug 2020

Environment

Amazon fires have affected almost all the region’s endangered species

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The Jubbah Oasis in northern Saudi Arabia, where humans were repeatedly present during periods of increased rainfall over hundreds of thousands of years

Humans

Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

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F0PBYM Mediterranean checkered scorpion (Mesobuthus gibbosus) on rock, The Peloponnese, Greece

Life

Scorpions have strange joints that can simultaneously bend and twist

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Life

Wild cockatoos make utensils out of tree branches to open fruit pits

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container ship Maersk Murcia

Technology

Shipping has made slow progress on climate change 鈥� can methanol help?

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Man passes by a section of roof that was blown off of a building by Hurricane Ida, in New Orleans

Environment

Hurricane Ida was almost certainly made worse by climate change

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blue light server tech

Technology

Digital archives meant to be permanent seem to be lost on the web

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2F8A64A Paypal app seen on the smartphone screen placed on top bitcoin coins pile. Concept. Stafford, United Kingdom, April 12, 2021.

Technology

Will PayPal’s adoption of bitcoin make cryptocurrency more mainstream?

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Gravitation waves around black hole in space 3D illustration

Physics

Quantum nature of gravity may be detectable with gravitational waves

Perhaps the most important problem in physics is how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together, and strange fluctuations in gravitational waves could help us figure it out

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Technology

AI accurately identifies whether objects can be recycled from a glance

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Environment

Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species in the Arctic

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Environment

How domesticating the African baobab tree could secure its future

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Mind

Woman loses ability to feel hungry after stroke damages her brain

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