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Rigging Elections, Turning C02 Into Sugar, And Dinosaur Extinction

OCT 01, 2019
A month’s worth of cool science stories summed up.
Rigging Elections, Turning C02 Into Sugar, And Dinosaur Extinction

On this monthly roundup, Alistair Jennings from Inside Science sums up some of September’s most interesting science: are social networks rigging democratic elections, researchers are working on converting carbon dioxide into sustainable liquid fuels, a system for turning CO2 into complex, even edible sugars, and researchers drilled an 800 metre long core of rock in Mexico – the site of the famous meteor impact the contributed to the dinosaurs extinction.

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