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Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new method which could help scientists perform large-scale climate ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

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The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...