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A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot...
A fast-growing wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, has triggered evacuations for a rural area no...
DNA is everywhere in the world's oceans—not only packaged inside cells from skin, scales, mucus, feces, and blood, but also floating freely. Sequencin...
Public infrastructures like roads and electricity are so essential to society that people almost take their value for granted. A new report by Frontie...
As the global push toward a carbon-neutral society accelerates, understanding how microorganisms metabolize methanol with high efficiency has become i...
Across the western United States, wildfires are increasing in size and intensity. As the climate continues to warm, more extreme wildfires will reshap...
A potentially powerful El Niño could take shape later this year. While its effects are often felt dramatically across parts of the United States and a...
Intensive agriculture poses a significant threat to global biodiversity. However, one aspect of biodiversity in farmland is little studied: algae. Mos...
Homes are being abandoned as climate change accelerates migration out of rural Bhutan, new research shows. The mountain kingdom is the world's first c...
More than 900 million tonnes of materials, 4 million km2 of land, and 53 billion hours of labor. This is the scale of resources that the Global North...
Playing a virtual reality game in which the player takes on the role of the zombie fungus Ophiocordyceps increases the players' understanding of how e...
Mobile apps that allow people to share their location with others have become increasingly popular. But how and why do we use these apps, and what are...
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