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Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris
It’s rush hour on Rue de Rivoli, one of the main arteries of the French capital....
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Russia takes advantage of Ukraine's depleted arsenal and the weather to advance
Russia is stepping up its assault on the Donetsk front, in eastern Ukraine, taking advantage of...
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Three sailors rescued in the Pacific after calling for help with palm leaves
The distress message written by shipwrecked mariners with palm leaves on the beach of an atoll...
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Discovery of mechanism behind asthma may help find an effective treatment for it
The word asthma comes from Greek, and one of the first references in literature alluded to...
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'All the doctors in the longevity field are taking metformin'
In 1974, Sydney Brenner published a paper on the genetics of a worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, which...
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Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'
“It has to be an ambitious conservation project,” Hansjörg Wyss, one of the world’s leading environmental...
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Polar ice melt caused by climate change is slowing the Earth's rotation
The melting of polar ice caused by climate change is affecting the rotation of the Earth....
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'If they ban TikTok in the US, they will destroy the American dream'
In addition to the usual tribe of lobbyists and other merchants of influence that swarm around...
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Trump could get stock worth $3.4B with merger of Truth Social site
Donald Trump during a campaign rally in North Carolina on March 2.Jonathan Drake (REUTERS)These days, Donald...
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US considering plea deal for Julian Assange if he admits guilt
A demonstrator dressed as the Statue of Liberty protests outside the High Court of Justice on...
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The aspiring rector who wrote a four-paragraph paper and cited himself 100 times
Professor Juan Manuel Corchado aspires to assume the esteemed position once held by philosopher Miguel de...
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An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence
Roni Bandini once woke up every day to reggaeton songs that his neighbor blasted at full...
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Life After Ozempic
Losing weight is surprisingly easy. So is gaining it back. The blockbuster drug — GLP-1 receptor...
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The controversial vote that decided not to change the planet's geological epoch
On February 1, 2024, a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene was voted upon....
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Insecure world launches into rearmament with a 9% military spending boom in 2023
An increasingly dangerous world is moving resolutely down the path of rearmament. The Munich Security Conference,...
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Requests for couples euthanasia rise in the Netherlands
Former prime minister of the Netherlands, Dries van Agt and his wife, Eugenie Krekelberg.Radboud UniversityDries and...
