The list of US government agencies compromised in the SolarWinds hack continues to expand, with reports of infiltrations at Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, and potentially…
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Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous?
If you’re unfortunate enough to breathe wildfire smoke, you’re getting a lungful of charred plant material, noxious gases, and—if the fire tore through human structures—incinerated…
View More Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous?The ‘Great Conjunction’ is about to appear in the night sky
The gas giants Saturn and Jupiter are drawing ever closer together. Well, from our Earthling perspective anyhow. The “great conjunction” of these planets in the…
View More The ‘Great Conjunction’ is about to appear in the night skyAir pollution death ruling: What comes next?
Asked whether this verdict only be relevant to people with asthma as unusually severe as Ella’s, Prof Jonathan Grigg, another of the expert witnesses in…
View More Air pollution death ruling: What comes next?Ivory: Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo
The findings are published in the journal Current Biology. Article Source
View More Ivory: Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargoJosef Aschbacher to be new European Space Agency boss
Brexit talks in ‘a serious situation’ says Johnson The PM and the EU Commission head speak again by phone, and acknowledge differences remain. Article Source
View More Josef Aschbacher to be new European Space Agency bossZoom lifts 40-minute call limit on free accounts over Christmas
Zoom is lifting limits on the free version of its videoconferencing software over the festive season to help families around the world socialise safely in…
View More Zoom lifts 40-minute call limit on free accounts over Christmas‘World’s ugliest orchid’ tops list of new discoveries
Dr Martin Cheek, a senior scientist at Kew, said there has been a bumper list of incredible newly named species this year. “It’s pretty sensational…
View More ‘World’s ugliest orchid’ tops list of new discoveriesShowy orchids to scaly desert dwellers – Kew presents ‘new’ species
Botanists list plants newly discovered or named by scientists in 2020 RBG Kew selects 10 of 156 species officially named this year The ugliest orchid…
View More Showy orchids to scaly desert dwellers – Kew presents ‘new’ speciesChina biodegradable plastics ‘failing to solve pollution crisis’
“It is really important to have clear infrastructure for what we call ‘end-of-life’. Plastic is single-use unless it can be recycled, or, even better, reused,”…
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