Keeping smartphones nearby makes us dumber
We’ve become so attached to smartphones that the brain actually has to give up part of its processing power to keep the urge of picking them up at bay.
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Moss serves as a cheap pollution monitor
Mosses found on rocks and trees in cities can be used to measure the impact of atmospheric change and could prove a low-cost way to monitor urban pollution
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Scientists genetically engineer world’s first blue chrysanthemum
True blue flowers are rare in nature. Now after 13 years Japanese scientists have created a genuinely blue chrysanthemum.
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Indian scientists discover ‘Saraswati’ — a supercluster of galaxies
The Saraswati supercluster of 43 galaxies is 4 billion light years away from Earth and roughly more than 10 billion years old.
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66 million trees planted in 12 hours in Madhya Pradesh
More than 1.5 million people helped plant the 66,750,000 tree saplings which featured over 20 different species.
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