Australia’s wildfires created a ‘record-breaking’ smoke plume in the upper atmosphere
Can’t have smoke without fire.
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Hospital floors are full of bacteria, posing a risk to patients’ health
Better watch where you step-- or even what you touch -- in a hospital.
Fossil Friday: leg fragment points to huge, toothy bird with a wingspan of up to 21 feet
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Satire from South Park creators shows how eerily real deepfakes already are
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Growing food with Martian soil is challenging but it’s not impossible
Geologists mimicked conditions in soil from Mars and found growing plants could prove difficult.
Taiwan just went 200 days without a single domestic coronavirus case
No other place has reached such a milestone.
Common fabrics can make effective masks against the viral particles, but they’re harder to breathe through
You should be well protected if you use a home-made face mask.
Google-Alphabet balloon breaks record for longest flight in the stratosphere
It spent 312 days in the air.
Let more big fish sink — it can help tackle climate change
Ocean fishing releases a lot of CO2 that would otherwise be locked on the sea floor.