A Long Day on Uranus, a Better Method of Making Coffee and Dinos Fossils in Decline

Caffeine-motivated researchers find that pour height may be the key
to a perfect cup of coffee. A new study of plastics finds that less
than 10 percent of such products are made with recycled materials.
And once the plastics are used, only 28 percent of them make it to
the sorting stage—and only half of that plastic is actually
recycled. Data from the Hubble Telescope show how a day on Uranus
lasts longer than previously thought. Plus, we discuss how
scientists thought dinosaurs were in decline even before their mass
extinction—until now.  Recommended reading: Challenging Big
Oil’s Big Lie about Plastic Recycling A Day on Uranus Is Longer
Than We Thought, Hubble Telescope Reveals  The Horned and
Armored Dinosaurs Were the Gladiators of the Mesozoic  E-mail
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