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Electric Cars Won’t Save Us if the Numbers Don’t Add Up
Electric cars are one of the fastest growing sectors of the automotive industry. Record sales are being made despite the economic crisis posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Seven years ago, there were only 3500 plug-in cars in the UK – there are now 300,000. Almost 120,000 of them run purely on battery power. Many view…
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Computers Can See a Distinction in Male and Female Brains, But They Rely Strongly on Differences in Head Size
How useful are the well-known and hotly contested categories of “male brain” and “female brain”? Among experts, nobody really questions that anatomical sex differences in the brain exist. But since the advent of brain science, the scientific community has been divided over how many differences there are, which ones have been definitively proven, how large…
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How Science and Courage Saved the Stunning Australian Alps
Most people probably associate the Australian Alps with skiing and snow. Others might think of the Man from Snowy River legend or the engineering feats of the Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme. But few people know the region’s history of exploitation and overuse, nor the courage of those who fought to save this precious wilderness area. A…
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A Foldable Pixel Could be Coming, According to a Leaked Document
We’re still a way out from the launch of the Pixel 5, but obviously the phone business doesn’t just look a few months ahead. No doubt there are years of Pixel devices in the pipeline, and apparently one of them is a foldable device codenamed ‘passport’. The documents, which have been reviewed by 9to5Google, make note…