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A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, ...

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Trust is no longer enough: secure data sharing requires international collaboration across institutions and governments.

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Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

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