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You Might Actually Want Your Kids to Eat These Crayons Made From Rice and Vegetable Waste
Even the most inescapable and impenetrable playpens won’t stop an infant from finding a way to stick something in its mouth that shouldn’t be there. A parent can be endlessly vigilant but it’s still going to happen, so instead of paranoia, a better approach is to just ensure everything a child potentially interacts with is…
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Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero
For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration called ALPHA, which oversaw the design and construction…
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Intergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter
Scientists have spent three decades trying to locate half of all the “normal” matter that’s supposed to exist in the universe. A new paper is claiming to have finally found this missing stuff, in a discovery made possible by measuring incoming fast radio bursts.
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Digital Solar Is Putting Solar Panels On Australian Rental Properties
Australia’s rate of solar adoption is something to be proud of. 15 per cent of Australian homes have solar panels installed, but when you look at comparable figures for rental houses, the difference is dramatic. Only one per cent of rental homes have solar panels installed, but Aussie tech startup Matter wants that to change.