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Psychology says the adults who seem calmest in emergencies aren't naturally unflappable, they were the children who couldn't afford to fall apart in front of the adults who were supposed to catch them

What happened when a US state passed its first serious groundwater law in 2014, after decades of farm wells pulling aquifers down so fast that the ground itself sank by tens of centimetres a year in places?

We tend to think wet biomass has to be dried before it can become fuel, but a Korean team showed the water trapped inside coffee grounds can itself drive the reaction, vaporising under plasma flames and rupturing each particle in microscopic explosions they call the popcorn effect

On 16 July 1945, the Trinity atomic test contaminated about 1,100 square miles of New Mexico with radioactive fallout, according to declassified accounts
