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Exposure to bacteria in landfill sites and polluted rivers may explain prevalence among city-dwelling birds

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext

Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’

Perseids will be at their height Sunday night into Monday – and viewers will be able to spot a flurry of shooting stars

Nuclear power already has an energy density advantage over other sources of thermal electricity generation. But what if nuclear generation didn’t require a steam turbine? What if the radiation from a reactor was less a problem to be managed and more a source of energy? And what if an energy conversion technology could scale to fit nuclear power systems ranging from miniature batteries to the grid? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is asking these types of questions in a request for information on High Power Direct Energy Conversion from Nuclear Power Systems, released August 1.

Ergodic literature is a subgenre of literature that upends the very fabric of storytelling itself.

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If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work.

Ukraine’s war with Russia dominated the entries and trips to bomb shelters punctuated the Odesa film festival, but two rather wonderful films emerged

Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence

I created a dating profile, using words Carolyn dictated from her bed

Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred

The first Cannonball Run in a solar-powered car.

A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

A fossil found inside a souvenir 'pet rock' could push the start of complex life on Earth back by about 750 million years.

I think Coke is gross but for yr perusal.

Astronauts on spacewalks famously have to relieve themselves inside their spacesuits. Not only is this uncomfortable for the wearer and unhygienic, it is also wasteful, as—unlike wastewater on board the International Space Station (ISS)—the water in urine from spacewalks is not recycled.

Animals in the capital Sofia's main zoo are cooling off with ice cream as the region endures more high temperatures.

Video post-mortem by the US CSB of a chemical (acetic acid) accident at a LyondellBassell plant.

He must have tucked better than RuPaul in some of these.