Urban heat islands (UHI) are areas with significantly higher temperatures than the regions surrounding them. The retention and generation of heat in…
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It could be argued that the scale of the universe is such that our minds will never be able to comprehend it.…
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Addiction: the compulsive urge to continue doing something regardless of its possible adverse outcomes. Every human is unique, with their likes and…
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Nearly every ancient polytheistic culture had gods of the weather. Most of us are aware of Thor, the god of thunder, but…
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Carl Sagan once said “somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” It’s that desire to know what is not already known…
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CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene-editing mechanism derived from a naturally-occurring set of DNA sequences found in bacteria. While still in its infancy, the…
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Mankind has been looking for ways to improve their sex lives for about as long as they’ve had sex lives. The history…
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2022 has been a hell of a year. For most of the world, it was the first year that things properly opened…
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Everything comes from somewhere. It’s a statement so preposterously obvious it’s rarely worth even making. And yet the implications of it are…
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For the last 20 years or more the internet has rolled out “this is how Skynet/The Matrix starts” jokes every single time there’s…