New research suggests that adding a small amount of physical activity – such as uphill walking or stair-climbing – into your day may help to lower blood pressure.
Five Minutes of Exercise a Day Could Lower Blood Pressure
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When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around.
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In early November 2024, a series of explosive, deadly eruptions occurred at Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki—a volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022.
New PFAS Removal Process Aims to Stamp Out Pollution Ahead of Semiconductor Industry Growth
A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate and destroy mixtures of diverse chemicals known as PFAS — including the increasingly prevalent ultra-short-chain PFAS — from water in a single process.
Microplastics Impact Cloud Formation, Likely Affecting Weather and Climate
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