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DWDeutsche Welle
Science
Could data centers be heating up towns like this?
FNFox News
Science
A study of 89 adults found that brighter, more consistent daylight exposure was linked to earlier sleep timing and more deep sleep at night.
EEuronews
Science
The Tara Polar Station left the port of Lorient on Sunday. For over a year, this floating laboratory will drift with the pack ice to study Arctic Ocean biodiversity and the impacts of climate…
TTThe Times of India
Science
In a fascinating discovery, scientists have found that fruit flies adapt their internal biological clocks to survive winter by employing a genetic mechanism known as the winter lock. This adaptation allows them to remain…
TTThe Times of India
Science
Scientists from Kyoto University used underwater microphones to monitor dolphins in two bays along Japan's Sea of Japan coast. They found dolphin sounds only about once every 10 days, suggesting the animals visit these…
CNCBS News
Science
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that she reversed her position on data centers because "the state has to lead," signing an executive order that banned large-scale data…
Climate advocate Mina Hasman’s vision of designing cities that behave like forests and buildings that act like trees.
As Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer's epic poem, arrives in cinemas, a very different odyssey is about to begin. Next month, a team of scientists will travel to the remote Arctic…
SCSouth China Morning Post
Science
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), according to a new paper outlining its plan to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid before…