Bitcoin Has Emitted 200 Million Tonnes Of Co2 Since Its Launch - [2022-09-28 Qovfvm]

Experimental Zika vaccine stops the virus from replicating in mice:

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Pregnant mice that were vaccinated before being exposed to Zika also showed signs of a healthier pregnancy than their unvaccinated counterparts

Bitcoin has emitted 200 million tonnes of CO2 since its launch:

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Bitcoin's demand for electricity has led to huge carbon emissions, but a slump in the cryptocurrency's price and rising energy costs have slowed its energy use, at least temporarily

Light from a quasar shows hints of one of the universe’s first stars:

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Astronomers examining a quasar may have found remnants of the explosion of one of the first stars in the universe, a behemoth about 300 times more massive than the sun

Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths:

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Being vaccinated against the coronavirus can cut the risk of having long covid symptoms 12 weeks after the infection by 41 per cent

Why the UK could be heading for a flu-covid 'twindemic' this winter:

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Warnings about a bad flu season were were proved wrong last year - but could be right about the forthcoming winter now that social mixing is back to normal

Mysterious stone spheres could be from an ancient Aegean board game:

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Stone spheres found at ancient settlements across the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas could have been playing pieces for a board game involving stone slabs

JWST has taken a picture of the gaseous ‘skeleton’ of a spiral galaxy:

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy IC 5332, peering through the dust that separates its spiral arms to reveal the gas and stars beneath

Earth’s surface may be teeming with trillions of dark matter particles:

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When dark matter is captured inside a planet or star, much of it sinks to the middle, but if it sometimes bounces off of regular matter, there may be huge amounts of it lurking just beneath the surface

First images show aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid collision mission:

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As NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, a small satellite called LICIACube watched from afar – now it has sent back its first images of the collision

Gene therapy infused into the brain eases rare condition in children:

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A gene-replacement therapy has eased the debilitating symptoms in a group of 30 children with AADC deficiency