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Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?
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Helsinki marks a year without traffic deaths, thanks to slower speeds and smarter streets | The Optimist Daily
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Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives
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How to listen like a therapist with four ways to build deeper connection and trust | The Optimist Daily
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Dublin expands car-free zones to improve bus travel and city life | The Optimist Daily
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Brains don’t fully mature until after we hit 30, evidence suggests
While they may be old enough to drive, vote, marry, people younger than 30 are still not fully maturem says…
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How can you know what to believe? | Earth | EarthSky
It’s not surprising that a new study linking extreme winter weather in the U.S. East with a warmer Arctic has…
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Human Brains Unable To Add Neurons After Adolescence
The brains of birds and mice continue to produce new nerve cells in the hippocampus throughout life. But research now…
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China's Tiangong-1 due for uncontrolled re-entry, soon
The current estimated window for Tiangong 1’s re-entry is approximately March 29, 2018 to April 9, 2018. “This is highly…
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New NASA Photo Shows Cyclones Deep in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
The Juno spacecraft is revealing what’s churning below the surface of the largest planet in the solar system.
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The Hydrogen Economy Is Coming To Town With New Electric Vehicles
After years of playing second fiddle to battery-powered electric vehicles, hydrogen electric fuel cell vehicles are steamrolling into the zero…
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What Life For This Teenage DACA Recipient Looks Like
Corina Barranco, a high schooler from Ohio, is one of 800,000 young immigrants who have been shielded from deportation by…
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How a teenage stowaway made it to Antarctica 90 years ago
A new book called “The Stowaway” tells the story of Billy Gawronski, a teenager who went to Antarctica with explorer…
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Emma González is young, Cuban and bisexual. She’s bringing all of her identities to the gun fight.
In the aftermath of the horrific Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, a new…