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Wait, What?! More People Had Access to Clean Water in 2000 Than in 2020?

If you thought the world was making steady progress toward universal access to clean water and sanitation, think again! While the raw numbers might tell a tale of improvement, a deeper dive into the data reveals a plot twist: When you adjust for socioeconomic, political, and hydrological factors, global access rates to safe drinking water […]

Astronomy

Mars Had Rippled Lakes: Ancient Wave Marks That Challenge Everything We Knew About the Red Planet

A Rippling Martian Lake Under a Warm, Breezy Sky It sounds like something out of science fiction, but NASA’s Curiosity rover just rewrote our understanding of Mars’ ancient climate. Buried within the dusty rocks of Gale Crater are tiny ripples—symmetrical wave ripples, to be precise—that could only have been carved by the gentle oscillations of […]

Geology

Could Icebergs Quench Global Thirst? Iceberg Towing Dream

Imagine a world where the solution to drought lies not in the clouds, but in the icy expanses of Antarctica. Picture colossal icebergs, not as frigid relics of the polar regions, but as potential lifelines for parched cities. This might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but it’s a concept that scientists […]

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Wait, What?! More People Had Access to Clean Water in 2000 Than in 2020?

Mars Had Rippled Lakes: Ancient Wave Marks That Challenge Everything We Knew About the Red Planet

Could Icebergs Quench Global Thirst? Iceberg Towing Dream

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