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Happy Birthday To The World Wide Web, Born On This Day In 1991
Happy birthday to the World Wide Web, born on this day in 1991 with absolutely no attention.It was instead just a post in the alt.hypertext newsgroup. Neither he nor the 200 other nerds who...
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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Marek’s Disease: How Chicken Herpes Mutates
Marek’s disease, a deadly illness that infects chickens, is caused by the herpes virus but was never given gain of function funding to try and see how it would infect mammals the way H5N1 and coronavi...
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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The Tennessee Girls Who Won World War II
On this day in 1945, an atomic bomb on Hiroshima began the countdown to the end of World War II. Of the Axis Powers, Italy had surrendered in 1943 and Germany in April of 1945. Only Japan remained, bu...
