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Prehistoric humans may have arrived the Americas earlier than previously thought: study

12th - Higher Ed
Prehistoric humans may have settled in Chiquihuite Cave of Central Mexico 33,000 years ago, according to a study in Nature.
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Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition technology

12th - Higher Ed
Amazon announced that it will ban police use of the company’s facial recognition tool Rekognition for a year, in a blogpost dated Wednesday.
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Locust plague and coronavirus threaten food security in East Africa

12th - Higher Ed
East African countries could be facing a food crisis as waves of locusts have been hitting crops in the region since the end of 2019.
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Rates of climate change in deep oceans could be severely affected, even in the best case scenario: study

12th - Higher Ed
Earth’s oceans could be experiencing rates of climate change seven times higher than levels today by the second half of the century, according to a new study.
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New ozone hole found above the Arctic

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers have discovered an unusually large hole in the ozone layer above the Arctic, according to observations from the European Space Agency. <br/>
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Explainer: How Rubber Bullets Can Injure You

12th - Higher Ed
According to a report published in BMJ Open in 2017, rubber bullets can cause serious injuries and even death.
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‘The One’ to become the tallest building in Canada

12th - Higher Ed
Supertall skyscraper “The One” is set to become the tallest building in Canada at 309 meters once it is completed in Toronto later this year. <br/>
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Cryptocurrency mining could be contributing to climate change, study finds

12th - Higher Ed
New research from the Technical University of Munich has found that the amount of computing power needed to mine bitcoin produces roughly the same amount of carbon emissions as a major city like Las Vegas. <br/>
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"Guts" and Stress Relief

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Everyone has fears and worries of one kind or another. When dealing with them, it can be helpful to have support and to know that others have similar feelings. The book Guts, by Raina Telgemeier, is the story of Raina, a young girl who...
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Remote ID system proposed for drones in U.S. airspace

12th - Higher Ed
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed using remote identification for unmanned aircraft systems in the U.S. <br/>
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Scientists identify first new HIV strain in two decades

12th - Higher Ed
A joint study by Abbott Laboratories and the University of Missouri has identified a new subtype of the HIV strain for the first time in 19 years. <br/>
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Hot exoplanet atmosphere can vaporize metals

12th - Higher Ed
A team of multinational scientists were able to look more closely into the environment of MASCARA-2 b, a large, scorching hot gaseous planet in our galaxy. <br/>
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Fossilised egg could be linked to ancient marine peptile

12th - Higher Ed
New research published in the journal Nature suggests a 68-million-year-old fossil egg may have belonged to an ancient marine reptile called a mosasaur.
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Hong Kong: China passes controversial security law

12th - Higher Ed
Beijing’s new national security law grants the government sweeping powers that critics fear will be used to quash Hong Kong’s freedoms and autonomy.
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Enormous floating pumice raft could help save the Great Barrier Reef

12th - Higher Ed
An enormous floating raft of volcanic rocks is drifting along the Pacific Ocean towards Australia, where it could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals.
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Outbreak of coffee rust threatens Latin American coffee supply

12th - Higher Ed
A fungus outbreak is threatening to wipe out Latin American coffee crops and trigger a global coffee crisis.
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Catch-and-release fishing may be harmful to fish

12th - Higher Ed
Hook injuries caused by the catch and release method may actually be harmful to fish, study finds.
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Explainer: What is teargas?

12th - Higher Ed
Tear gas is a chemical weapon used for crowd control that causes irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs and skin.
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Alphabet launches internet-streaming balloons for commercial operations in Kenya

12th - Higher Ed
Alphabet Inc has launched stratospheric balloons to broadcast WiFi signals over Kenya in its first-ever commercial operation
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80-story wooden skyscraper planned for Chicago

12th - Higher Ed
Architectural firm Perkins and Will, along with engineers Thronton Tomasetti and the University of Cambridge conceptualized a wooden skyscraper to be built along the Chicago River in 2017. <br/>
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Bees build nests from plastic

12th - Higher Ed
New research from Argentina’s National Agricultural Technology Institute shows that solitary bees are making nests out of plastic packaging.
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Astronomers say fast radio burst detected in the Milky Way produced by highly magnetized star

12th - Higher Ed
The first fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way has been traced back to a magnetar known as SGR 1935+2154 located 32,616 light-years away from Earth, astronomers researching the phenomena told Nature magazine.
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Coronavirus may attack the brain and nervous system

12th - Higher Ed
A study of COVID-19 patients in the Chinese city of Wuhan, from where the pandemic originated, found coronavirus could lead to serious neurological complications in perhaps as many as one third of all patients. <br/>
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Novel coronavirus could be a hybrid of bat and pangolin viruses: study

12th - Higher Ed
Explainer: How bat and pangolin coronaviruses may have recombined to create SARS-CoV-2