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11 November 2024

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12 August 2022

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Will Facebook Go Green by Earth Day?

featured Will Facebook Go Green by Earth Day?

Greenpeace is campaigning for the global social networking giant, Facebook, to commit to end its reliance on energy sourced from coal by Earth Day on 22 April 2011. Earth Day...

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Scavenger T.rex much more like a hyena than a lion

Scavenger T.rex much more like a hyena than a lion

An epic Montana fossil bed census suggests Tyrannosaurus rex was more of an opportunistic scavenger like a hyena, than an apex predator like a lion. This is the largest study...

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'Thunderthighs' - a new species of dinosaur discovered

'Thunderthighs' - a new species of dinosaur discovered

A new species of dinosaur, Brontomerus, literally 'thunderthighs', has been found in a quarry in Utah, USA. Named for it's extremely large thigh muscles, the larger than elephant-sized beast may...

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Biodiesel produced from wastewater microalgae

Biodiesel produced from wastewater microalgae

Scientists have developed a way to extract a new kind of biodiesel from microalgae Researchers based at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are excited by the possibilities that they...

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Did some dinosaurs survive the mass extinction?

Did some dinosaurs survive the mass extinction?

There is a long established and almost universally accepted belief that the age of the plant-eating dinosaur came to an end somewhere between 65.5 and 66 million years ago. There...

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Lithium-air batteries a thing of the future, scientists say

Lithium-air batteries a thing of the future, scientists say

etadshow468 --> Advances in battery technology such as lithium-air batteries are unlikely to happen soon. Electric vehicles are gaining popularity around the world, but their potential for becoming completely mainstream...

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Scientists find value in waste incineration ash

Scientists find value in waste incineration ash

A team of Italian researchers have developed a low-cost technique for extracting valuable elements from fly ash produced by Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI). MSWI reduces the volume and weight...

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