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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

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A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon…

Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly

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Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology.

Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds

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Language has such a powerful effect, it can influence the way in which we experience time, according to a new study.