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A Decade and Two Elections After Banning Billboards, This French City Still Doesn’t Want Them Back
A decade ago, Grenoble tore down hundreds of billboards and planted trees instead. Two mayors and two elections later, nobody has tried to bring them back.
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Within a Month: The Single Injection That Brought Hearing Back to Ten Deaf Patients
Four months after a single injection into her inner ear, a seven-year-old girl was chatting with her mother the way…
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The Fridge on the Corner: How Free Food Feeds Neighbors and Keeps Meals Out of Landfills
Dan Zauderer had seven slices of pizza and no good reason to eat them. He and his in-laws had already…
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The Popcorn Effect: How Wet Coffee Waste Becomes Coal-Grade Fuel in 90 Seconds
The world drinks a staggering amount of coffee, and every cup leaves something behind: a small, sodden clump of spent…
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The Return of the Giants: Whales Are Filling the Southern Ocean Again
Scientists who have spent their careers around whales are hard to astonish. Then the research vessel Allankay came into the…
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When the Grid Let Them Down, Pakistanis Went Up to the Roof
Somewhere in the last few years, a very large number of Pakistani families reached the same conclusion at more or…
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The Ugandan Coffee Farmers Who Stopped Waiting for the Rain to Behave
For a coffee farmer, the rain has always been the boss. It arrives when it arrives, and the crop lives…
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