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Microplastics change the colour of the sea near the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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A guide to Nature Index tables

To track research outputs that are relevant to the topic of affordable and clean energy, or, more specifically, the seventh United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the SDG classifier available in the…

How to avoid aliens and live

Read carefully. Your late predecessors did not. What should I do when I first make sensor contact with an alien? Nothing. All unknown alien lifeforms are extremely dangerous, and death is the usual First Contact result —…

Cacti are severely threatened by drought in a warming world

Can green technologies deliver energy security in an unstable world?

French fishers blockaded a fuel depot and clashed with police. Government and household budgets were squeezed around the world as interest rates rose and the sales of electric vehicles roughly doubled year-on-year in…

Efficient catalyst-controlled C–H arylation of arenes

1 However, native substrates lack the preinstalled functional handles that ordinarily provide both reactivity and control over the site of reaction. Consequently, despite long-standing interest in directly engaging C–H…

Getting a grasp on the global wildlife trade

Even giant anteaters in remote Brazil have microplastics in their blood

Researchers measured the concentration of microplastics in the blood of 47 animals: 26 lowland tapirs ( Tapirus terrestris ) and 21 giant anteaters ( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ). The scientists found that, on average, the…

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, November 11 (game #1249)

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle…

Iconic first image of black hole holds up to scrutiny

Wong, and F. Diakogiannis; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration wowed the world in 2019 with the first picture ever taken of a black hole’s shadow.…