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40 Species Including Cheetahs And Snowy Owls Just Got Global Protection
Representatives from 132 countries and the European Union gathered in Brazil for one of the world’s most important wildlife meetings and left with a significant win for some of the planet’s most beloved and vulnerable animals. The United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species concluded its COP15 summit
The Baby Elephant Who Won Over The Internet And Her Own Public Vote
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC has not had a successful Asian elephant birth in nearly 25 years. So when a calf was born at 1:15 in the morning on the second day of February, keepers who had been waiting for this moment for two decades were, by their
The Oldest Dog On Record Just Got Even Older
Dogs have been living alongside humans for a very long time, but two new studies published in the journal Nature just pushed that timeline back by about 5,000 years and introduced us to the oldest dog whose identity has ever been confirmed through genetics. Researchers examined ancient DNA from the
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Battery Prices Have Fallen 97 Percent In 30 Years And The Ripple Effect Is Enormous
One of the most quietly transformative changes in modern technology has been happening for three decades without most people noticing, and the numbers are almost hard to believe. The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 97 percent since 1991. A battery with one kilowatt-hour of capacity that cost 7,500
6 Million People Just Got Access To Free Dental Care
For millions of Canadians, going to the dentist has always been a financial calculation rather than a health decision. Canada historically did not include dental care in its public health system, meaning roughly one in three Canadians had no dental coverage at all, and many simply stopped going to the
40 Species Including Cheetahs And Snowy Owls Just Got Global Protection
Representatives from 132 countries and the European Union gathered in Brazil for one of the world’s most important wildlife meetings and left with a significant win for some of the planet’s most beloved and vulnerable animals. The United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species concluded its COP15 summit
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Happy Health
6 Million People Just Got Access To Free Dental Care
For millions of Canadians, going to the dentist has always been a financial calculation rather than a health decision. Canada historically did not include dental care in its public health system, meaning roughly one in three Canadians had no dental coverage at all, and many simply stopped going to the
A Sea Slug Study Just Changed What We Know About How To Actually Make Memory Stick
If you have ever crammed the night before and found it mostly gone by morning, there is now a cellular explanation for why that happens, and it comes from an unlikely source: sea slugs. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center studied the neurons of Aplysia, a sea
TikTok Is Getting Gen Z To Quit Vaping
Social media influencer challenges have a complicated reputation, but a new one spreading across TikTok and Instagram is genuinely worth paying attention to. Throughout the past year, a wave of popular content creators with audiences numbering in the hundreds of millions began posting videos about quitting vaping, all in partnership