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Real Clear Science 

New Method Could Halve Cost of Lithium Production

Staff, Anthropocene

A new method to extract lithium from salty brines is more efficient and sustainable than current methods. The technology also costs less than half of today's methods....

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Crossbreed Dogs Might Not Be as Healthy as Thought

Alex Hughes, Science Focus

One piece of advice every potential dog owner has received: get a crossbreed. With longer lives and healthier bodies, these dogs mixed from two different breeds...

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What Type of Excavator Is Most Suitable for Asteroids?

Andy Tomaswick, Univ Today

Digging in the ground is so commonplace on Earth that we hardly ever think of it as hard. But doing so in space is an entirely different proposition. On some...

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More Studies Won't Solve the Masking Debate

David Scales, Undark

Earlier this summer, experts published a 38,000-word, multidisciplinary review of the evidence on masking against infectious disease. Masks work, they concluded, and...

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Tiny Backyard Bug Does the Fastest Backflips on Earth

NC State University

Move over, Sonic. There's a new spin-jumping champion in town - the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air,...

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A Neurohormone Causes Sea Stars to Shed Their Arms

EurekAlert!

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have made a groundbreaking discovery about how starfish manage to survive predatory attacks by shedding their own limbs. The team...

New England Sportd Network: World Cup 

Red Sox Wrap: Boston’s Offense Silent Vs. Blue Jays In Series Finale

The Boston Red Sox closed out their four-game series with a 2-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park on Thursday night. With the loss, the Red Sox fell to 69-65 on the season, while the Blue Jays improved to 66-70. Check out the full box score here. ONE BIG TAKEAWAYThe Red Sox […]

Cyprus Mail 

Cyprus to host MED9 summit focused on drought

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou announced on Thursday that Cyprus will host the MED9 summit of agriculture ministers from September 1 to 3. The MED9 group is an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. Panayiotou stressed that the summit will be the first […]

France24.com (en) 

Typhoon Shanshan churns up Japan, up to six dead

The typhoon, one of the fiercest to hit Japan in decades, has weakened and was forecast to ease to tropical cyclone strength by Monday, though gusts were still reaching 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour early Friday. Even before making landfall on the island of Kyushu, a landslide caused by the heavy rains preceding it killed three members of the same family late Tuesday in Aichi prefecture, around 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away. Government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi confirmed four deaths but said that in one case... Читать дальше...

Sportsnet.ca Tennis News 

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Seemingly back in her US Open match, suddenly a point from getting to a third set, Naomi Osaka lost her way Thursday night, missing forehand after forehand until she ceded that game and chucked her racket, sending it clattering on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.