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Analysis aj0690Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life
Increasing ship traffic, sonar and seismic air gun blasts now planned for offshore drilling may be disrupting migration, reproduction and even the chatter of the seas’ creatures.
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2 days ago
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Reflections on Antarctica
Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd spent almost two months racing across Antarctica, a journey that killed an explorer who attempted it in 2016. Back in warmer climes, they spoke about the race of a lifetime.
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2 days ago
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Could flexitarianism save the planet?
Scientists say a drastic cut in meat consumption is needed, but this requires political will
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3 days ago
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Underwater Robot Has Potential To Help Revive The World's Dwindling Coral Reefs
Underwater robot has delivered over 100k baby corals in attempt to restore part of the Great Barrier Reef
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3 days ago
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Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching pressure
More than half of female elephants are being born without tusks
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4 days ago
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Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister, Carly, bought DNA ancestry kits from five of the most popular companies in the industry. Find out why some of the results they received left a team of computational biologists at Yale University baffled.
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4 days ago
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Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster
Moderate earthquakes aren’t releasing enough stress along the region’s faults. They’re actually making it worse.
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4 days ago
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Report: Trump Directed Cohen to Lie About Moscow Deal—and Mueller’s Got the Evidence
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6 days ago
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Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look beyond Fossil Fuels
Several companies are diversifying their businesses, from biofuels to electric vehicles
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7 days ago
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Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’
Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished
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7 days ago
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UCI/JPL: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago
Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come
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11 days ago
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Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
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12 days ago
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Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed
Location of statues was based on nearby fresh water and other resources, says US study
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12 days ago
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Hallucinations and $100,000: the poker player who shut himself in a pitch-black room for weeks
Rich Alati had a six-figure sum in his sights. As long as he could survive 30 days in the dark with no human contact
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13 days ago
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New York Is Dealing With an Old Enemy—Measles
New York is in the midst of an outbreak of measles, a childhood disease that shouldn’t really exist in the U.S. any longer. On Tuesday, NBC News reported, New York health officials said the state has seen more than 100 cases of the vaccine-preventable disease since last September—a tally not seen in decades. The majority of these cases have happened among the unvaccinated.
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13 days ago
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3D-printed guns may be more dangerous to their users than targets
Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.
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13 days ago
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Lonely George, the last snail of its kind, has died
Formally known as Achatinella apexfulva, the 14-year-old Hawaiian tree snail was the last of its kind on the planet.
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2 weeks ago
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Machine learning speeds up atomistic simulations of water and ice
Why is water densest at around 4 degrees Celsius? Why does ice float? Why does heavy water have a different melting point compared to normal water? Why do snowflakes have a six-fold symmetry? A collaborative study of researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the University of Göttingen and the University of Vienna and just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, provides physical insights into these questions by marrying data-driven m...
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2 weeks ago
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Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
Public Health England aims to persuade parents to reduce sugar in children’s diets
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2 weeks ago
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World's rarest bird gets new home
A species of duck thought to have been wiped out a decade ago is re-released at a lake in Madagascar.
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2 weeks ago
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Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
Death was the great leveller, but new life-extension technologies will widen the gap between the haves and havenots
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2 weeks ago
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I mean, who can't read 3 books a day for a full year!? :P
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3 weeks ago
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New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion
A giant plume of smoke exploded into the night sky on Thursday night in Queens, causing people across New York City to gawk in awe.
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3 weeks ago
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President Trump’s Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across America
In just two years, Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback with little parallel in the past half-century.
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1 month ago
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Scientists Find Red Wolf DNA in a Unique Group of Wild Dogs in Texas
One of America’s native wild canines, the red wolf, has teetered on the brink of extinction for decades. And despite the efforts of a captive breeding program started in the 1970s, only about 40 such wolves are known to be still living in the wild today, all in North Carolina. But researchers at Princeton University have made a strange discovery that might spell good news for the future of the species: A population of wild dogs, isolated off the coast of Texas, that seem to carry red wolf gene...
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