A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting ...

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In fact, the question remains as to whether placing these supposed bad influences off-limits actually helpS children. “Not a bit” is the answer, according to child psychology researchers. In fact, ...

It is difficult to disentangle Russian and Chinese scientists from international science cooperation. That is a good thing ...

It is “virtually certain” that 2024 will be the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than in the preindustrial era, before heat-trapping fossil fuels began ...

Justin Talbot Zorn is senior adviser at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, a Truman National Security Fellow and a former senior policy staffer in the U.S. House of ...

President-elect Trump vowed to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse Biden administration climate ...

Anosmia, or loss of a sense of smell, has become a more familiar term over the past few years, thanks to the prevalence of this condition during the COVID pandemic. Researchers have studied ...

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Famous people who die at age 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, get even more famous because of the ...

In the hostile conditions beyond Earth, a spacecraft is all that stands between an astronaut and certain death. So having ...