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Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work
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Droidspeak: AI models work together faster when they speak their own language
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COP29: Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them
A methane plume at least 4.8 kilometres long billows into the atmosphere…
Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow
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Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema
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2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS
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How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano
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