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Fighting climate change at the sink: A guide to greener dishwashing
If you’re an environmentally conscious consumer, you’ve probably heard that today’s highly efficient dishwashers use less…
Pollinating opossums confirm decades-long theory
In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted—and 27 years later, proved—that opossums…
Human language most likely evolved gradually
One of the most controversial hypotheses for the origin of the human language faculty is the…
Huge bacteria-eating viruses close gap between life and non-life
Scientists have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms,…
Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way
A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making…
Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions
More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of…
Salt water may periodically form on the surface of Mars
Briny water may form on the surface of Mars a few days per year, research by…
Astronomers discover potential near earth objects
Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless…
Modified clay can remove herbicide from water
By creating neatly spaced slits in a clay mineral, University of Groningen Professor of Experimental Solid…