naturalsciences
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An Uncontacted Tribe Is One of the Latest Casualties in Race to Build EVs
“These are the forests which we guard for the future generation and now they are being destroyed for electric cars, where is the heart of people in the west?”
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New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.
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Bent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected
Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That’s more than seven times the size of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
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How Paris Plans to Keep Athletes Cool Sans Air Conditioning During the 2024 Olympics
Organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics are hoping to keep world athletes cool during the summer without relying on air conditioners. Their goal is to use an underground water cooling system beneath the Athletes Village instead.