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Up-to-the-minute advice on the benefits of testicle tanning

New Scientist

Feedback does a deep dive into the pros – or otherwise – of scrotal sunbathing, while also digging into a new method for helping opposing sides in the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum call a truce

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EPA: U.S. Steel To Pay $1.5 Million Penalty, Make Improvements To settle Air Pollution Violations At Allegheny County Steel Plant

PA Environment Daily

The consent decree addresses numerous Clean Air Act violations dating back to 2016 at the steelmaking facility known as Edgar Thomson Works, that occupies about 250 acres and employs about 900 workers. Steel Corporation will pay a $1.5

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Concerning primordial black holes

Physics World

The notion also attracted more recent interest following the first detection by LIGO – Virgo in 2016 of the gravitational waves caused by a binary black hole merger. The scale of the holes in question – in the range of 10–50 solar masses – was larger than had been expected, leading some to speculate the pair were primordial in origin.

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Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

Frontiers

“During the monitoring period, sub-lethal effects of high temperatures (including compromised foraging, provisioning, and body mass maintenance) reduced the chance of hornbills breeding successfully or even breeding at all,” explained Pattinson.

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DEP Plans To Present A ‘Narrower Version’ Of Final Oil & Gas Methane Emission Reduction Reg. To EQB At June Meeting

PA Environment Daily

Laura Legere of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported DEP was re-evaluating the final methane regulation over a 2016 law requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee also sent a letter disapproving of the regulation largely based on the 2016 law.

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