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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 ...
10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast.
WEBOct 19, 2023 · From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, with the population plummeting to record lows in 2021.
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 ...
Our climate change crisis - Science News
WEBMar 10, 2022 · E. Otwell; Source: NASA, NOAA, Met Office Hadley Centre. HadCRUT5 data was set to a baseline of 1850–1900. NOAA and NASA data were vertically aligned with it using a reference period of 1981–2010.
Are viruses alive? And why does it matter? | Science News
WEBNov 1, 2021 · In the 1800s, they were called biological particles. By the early 1900s, they’d been demoted to inert chemicals. Throughout, viruses have rarely been considered alive. More than 120 definitions ...
Finally, some solid science on Bigfoot | Science News
WEBJuly 1, 2014 at 7:05 pm. Sometimes in science, you solve one mystery just to create another. So it goes with Bigfoot. After creating a stir last October with preliminary results, an international ...
Louis Pasteur invented microbiology and transformed public health
WEBNov 18, 2022 · He invented microbiology and established the foundations for immunology. Louis Pasteur (seated) poses with, among others, children treated with his rabies vaccine. By early 1886, more than 300 ...
How plate tectonics upended our understanding of Earth
WEBJan 13, 2021 · Kevin Schafer/Alamy Stock Photo. Plate tectonics describes how Earth’s entire, 100-kilometer-thick outermost layer, called the lithosphere, is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of plates — slabs of ...
What lifestyle changes will shrink your carbon footprint the most?
WEBMay 14, 2020 · Americans, specifically, waste about 25 percent of the food we buy. According to Project Drawdown, adopting a vegetarian diet can also cut emissions, by about 63 percent, while going vegan can ...
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