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You can organise a guided tour of the Hassan II Mosque with Casamémoire, a non-profit that’s been working to preserve the city’s 20th-century architecture since 1995. Photograph by Getty Images, Sergio Formoso Located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, the nation’s most populous city is a layer cake of soaring mosques, art deco cinemas and...

Bacteria wouldn’t be so bad if we could tell them what to do. “Stop spreading! Stop sticking together! Stop fending off our antibiotics!” A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, letting them use light to control certain functions of bacteria. Introduced in a paper published in The European Physical Journal...

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In the thin air of Nepal’s highlands, scientists are witnessing humans evolving in real time as they adapt to one of Earth’s harshest environments. Above 3,500 meters (around 11,500 feet), oxygen levels drop significantly. Most people who ascend to these heights without acclimatization risk altitude sickness, a condition that occurs when the body can’t get...

Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and sunsets particularly vivid By Meghan Bartels edited by Dean Visser Each year, seasonal winds carry tens of millions of tons of Saharan dust across the Atlantic and beyond. On February 18, 2021, NOAA-20’s VIIRS captured...

From Hadrian’s Wall to the Great Wall of China , ancient fortified structures have been the subject of interest for centuries. When archaeologists come across these walls, they often categorize them as military structures used to defend and protect communities.  A recently excavated wall in Mongolia is proving that the military assumption isn’t always true....

Key Takeaways on the Van Allen Belts: In 1958, James Van Allen discovered far fewer cosmic rays than expected using a cosmic-ray detector and suggested that a belt of strong radiation may have damaged the device. The belts were therefore named in honor of Van Allen. Van Allen belts are a big, energetic stew of...

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