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Data Centers Are Created Right Where Environmentalists Want Them To Be
A populist campaign has built up around data centers and their impact on rural areas but, like with claims that natural gas and coffee cause cancer, they are lawyer-driven rather than scientific.There...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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You Inherited Some Of Your DNA From Ghosts
There is ongoing concern about species extinction in modern times but we have no real idea how many species there are right now, and 99.999997 percent of species that have gone extinct we can't identi...
Medicine
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Hospitals Should Stop Doing 3 Things To New Moms About Breastfeeding
In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food colori...
Physical Sciences
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See An Old Rocket Slam Into The Moon Wednesday
Another rocket is going to crash into the moon but this time it isn't China doing aerospace the way they do virology. Instead, it is a SpaceX 40-foot long, 10,000-pound rocket segment that was used to...
Social Sciences
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Does Social Inequality Make Women Exercise Less?
A longitudinal study of Black, Mixed, Asian, and Indigenous women determined that lower levels of education and other social inequality keeps them from exercising as much as white people.The World Hea...
