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Researchers Will Track Whether Coronavirus Recovery Spending Benefits Climate

Share this on WhatsApp A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University has set out to measure what percentage of the billions of dollars that world governments are spending on the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic might result in lasting reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Jonas Nahm, an assistant professor of energy, resources and environment […]

Why Some Male Leaders Won’t Follow COVID-19 Safety Protocols

Share this on WhatsApp In April, Vice President Mike Pence violated COVID-19 safety protocols at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, refusing to don a mask when he toured the hospital. In May, President Donald Trump similarly eschewed a mask—while visiting a mask-making facility. Pence said he wanted to look health care workers in the eye, […]

How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey

Share this on WhatsApp In the 1980s, scientists discovered that oyster mushrooms are carnivores. The delicious, inescapable inference is that they’re the only vegan food that can itself eat meat. The meat in question is definitely meat, too. Nematodes, also called roundworms, are little animals complete with guts, nerves, muscles and their own primitive form […]