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US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48838699
‘Grave concern’ as sales of low emission cars fall https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48865702
Why Is 137 the Most Magical Number? https://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/physics-terms/why-is-137-most-magical-number.htm
Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/ethics-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
Tiny granules can help bring clean and abundant fusion power to Earth https://www.pppl.gov/news/2019/07/tiny-granules-can-help-bring-clean-and-abundant-fusion-power-earth
Nuclear fusion plasma could be stabilized against large eruptions – by causing lots of small ones https://newatlas.com/tokamak-plasma-stabilized-beryllium-impurities/60408/
Climate change made Europe’s mega-heatwave five times more likely https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02071-z
The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-trajectory-theory-lets-physicists-understand-whats-going-on-during-wave-function-collapse-20190703/
The truth about the US’ most iconic food: hot dogs http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190702-the-truth-about-the-us-most-iconic-food
More than 1 million ordered to evacuate as Japanese prefecture braces for a month of rain in one day https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/03/asia/japan-heavy-rainfall-intl-hnk/index.html