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Crypto’s 2023 Water Use Could Cool 249 Billion Volkswagen Beetles
Cryptocurrency is a weird, bad bubble that’s largely already popped, but some folks just refuse to give up and cash out. Instead, they’re hawking cryptocurrency perfumes to appeal to women, presumably because they asked exactly zero women what they’d want from crypto. It’s interesting, though, that a major crypto firm would market itself using liquids.…
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Future Wars Will Probably Be Fought in Space
There’s a bunch of shit in space, and we keep putting more shit up there. Space is more accessible than ever before, and the U.S., China, and Russia are all hurtling toward potential space war and mutually-assured satellite destruction. It won’t be happening out among the stars, though; it’s likely to be waged in low…
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An ‘RNA World’ Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth
Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth’s primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to RNA-based life. The team’s research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes a ribozyme that could create an environment…
