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Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of the mortality comes from PM...
A new University of Virginia study led by environmental scientist Justin Richardson shows that phosphorus pollution driving algae blooms in Virginia's...
Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much larger than anything astro...
A warming climate is disrupting the delicate balance of nature. An international team of scientists led by entomologists from the Biology Center of th...
Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can b...
Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international study is the first to unders...
With wildfires growing in size, frequency, and intensity, more and more people are being exposed to their smoke, sometimes thousands of miles from the...
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among bir...
An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering previously undetectable ste...
Researchers at the University of Hamburg, the University of Toulouse, and the DESY and ESRF research institutes have observed for the first time in re...
The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While scientists have long unders...
A new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst economist shows that shrinking package sizes at U.S. grocery stores have played a hidden but...
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