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Ukrainians Shift to Renewable Power for Energy Security amid War

CLIMATEWIRE | It’s not easy to talk about climate change and carbon-free power when your country is a battlefield. That’s the…

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Sharpshooter Insects Use ‘Superpropulsion’ to Catapult Their Pee

Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters. The half-inch-long insects are…

2 years ago

Solar Geoengineering Should Be Regulated, U.N. Report Says

CLIMATEWIRE | A panel of climate experts convened by the United Nations is calling for international regulations to extend into the…

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Science Out of the Box

On balance, science tends to follow a slow and incremental path: new observations build on previous findings, often over many…

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Scientists Are Trying to Pull Carbon Out of the Ocean to Combat Climate Change

CLIMATEWIRE | There's a growing consensus among climate scientists that in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming, humanity…

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Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?

This is Science, Quickly, a podcast from Scientific American. I’m Stefano Montali.  If I asked you to visualize, say, Harry…

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Another Patient Is Free of HIV after Receiving Virus-Resistant Cells

A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared clear of the…

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JWST Discovers Enormous Distant Galaxies That Should Not Exist

Nobody expected them. They were not supposed to be there. And now, nobody can explain how they had formed.  Galaxies…

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Sorry, UFO Hunters–You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon

White House Press Secretary: There is no, again, no, indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity. News Host: Pentagon officials were grilled on…

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Evolution Turns These Knobs to Make a Hummingbird Hyperquick and a Cavefish Sluggishly Slow

We’re all familiar with muscle conditioning or deconditioning that happens in response to exercise or lack of it. But when…

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