Earth's drylands expand, affecting billions as climate warms
As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...
Supernovas may have played a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...
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Physicists Think They’ve Found a Way to Harvest Energy from Earth’s Rotation — And It Might Be Just Crazy Enough to Work
Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at ...
Every Middle-earth Movie, Ranked by How Entertaining It Is
The film adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are epic and thrilling, but which is the most ...
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Aurora art teacher won an international NASA contest. Now his drawing is orbiting Earth in the International Space Station.
Inside Mr. McCauley's art class at Aurora Frontier P-8, kids are encouraged to use their imagination. A recent assignment had students reaching for the stars. "They wanted drawing ideas of what ...
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As the climate warms, the trees are talking. One Charlotte artist is listening
Trees can tell us a lot from the stories etched into their bark. One Charlotte artist has captured some of those stories ...
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Science Under the Radar: Five Researchers Make Their Case
When science reporters miss the chance to pick up on these storylines, the public can miss out on opportunities to get ...
Minnesota draft tribal cannabis compact criticized as unfair by advocates, business owners
Some entrepreneurs and advocates say Minnesota is giving tribal nations an unfair advantage over state-licensed businesses.
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known ...
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Invisible DNA lurks everywhere in the environment — and we're on the verge of decoding its secrets
Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or organism or identify multiple species at once. The barcode is a small ...
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Explainer: 128 new moons for Saturn, but what even counts as a moon?
Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.