Throughout my life, the wheelie bin has transformed into the typical container for discarding household waste. With their ample capacity and ease of maintenance, these bins present a relatively sanitary choice. Their design also streamlines and decreases the expenses of collections for municipal services, necessitating only one garbage truck and one operator. On collection days, […]
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**Investigating the Global Renaissance Through the Perspective of Jerry Brotton** Jerry Brotton, a prominent figure in Renaissance scholarship, is a Professor at Queen Mary University of London. His extensive portfolio exceeds conventional limits, illuminating the worldwide character of the Renaissance and its intercultural influences extending beyond Europe. Brotton’s acclaimed book, *The Renaissance: A Very Short […]
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Medieval Islamic science is frequently recognized for its remarkable contributions and subsequent decline, with historians working to clarify these events. Nonetheless, myths endure, such as the notion that Al-Ghazali’s “Tahāfut al-Falāsifa” stifled Islamic scientific progress. Neil deGrasse Tyson has perpetuated this misconception, yet historian Tim O’Neill and others have refuted it. Evidence countering this fallacy […]
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In the exaggeration of the popular narrative surrounding the history of science, Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica* (*The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy*) is frequently regarded as one of the most pivotal works in the scientific domain. Typically, many esteem it highly due to Newton’s identification of the law of gravity. Nevertheless, it is more […]
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Somewhere within a doughnut-shaped apparatus in California, a flow of superheated plasma is racing at approximately 88 kilometers per second. It is also, in a way, disintegrating. Particles at the periphery of the magnetic field that confines the plasma are perpetually breaking free, cascading downward toward metal plates meant to capture them, cool them down, […]
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Gen-Ichiro Arimura gazes at a collection of illuminated graphs in his laboratory at the Tokyo University of Science, and the figures are displaying something remarkable. For years, the domain of nutrition science has been plagued by persistent doubt: while we recognize that the “Mediterranean diet” or the spice-rich cuisines of Southeast Asia are beneficial, testing […]
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**Triceratops Physiology: Disclosing the Mysteries of Its Intricate Skull Design** Seishiro Tada, a scientist affiliated with the University of Tokyo Museum, has initiated a scientific endeavor to unravel the enigma of a Triceratops skull. While examining 3D-printed pieces of a Triceratops snout, Tada noticed unusual internal passages that traditional reptilian anatomy could not explain. The […]
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IT IS frigid, dim, and incredibly ancient within the Scarisoara ice cave. Nestled deep within the Apuseni mountains of Romania, this underground cathedral holds a colossal ice block that has been gradually building up for more than 10,000 years. As Cristina Purcarea and her team from the Institute of Biology Bucharest meticulously lifted a 25-meter […]
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In the 1990s, William Muir, an agricultural researcher, set out to develop more efficient egg-laying hens. His initial approach involved picking the highest-yielding hen from each cage to generate the next lineage. However, after numerous breeding cycles, this technique led to a strain of exceedingly aggressive hens. These hens excelled in productivity by dominating and […]
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially annulled its greenhouse gas ‘endangerment finding’, a crucial legal decision that provided the agency with the power to regulate gases related to climate change under the Clean Air Act. Announced on February 12th, this choice could lead to far-reaching effects on various pollution control approaches but […]
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