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Australia’s Massive Wildfires Shredded the Ozone Layer–Now Scientists Know Why

Share this on WhatsApp Massive wildfires that raged across southeast Australia in 2019–20 unleashed chemicals that chewed through the ozone layer, expanding and prolonging the ozone hole. A study, published today in Nature, describes how smoke combined with chlorine-containing molecules in the stratosphere — remnants of chemicals that are now banned — to cause the destruction. […]

“Punch Card” DNA Could Mean Cheaper High-Capacity Data Storage

Share this on WhatsApp If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information that the world is estimated to produce by 2040 would exceed the planet’s expected supply of microchip-grade silicon by up to 100 times. To prevent such a crisis, researchers have been […]

Blood Clots and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: What We Know So Far

Share this on WhatsApp Earlier this month the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine following reports that, within two weeks of getting it, six women developed blot clots, and one of them died. About 6.8 million people had received that […]