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Goats and Sheep Are Brawling in the Rockies. Blame Glacial Melt
This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In one corner, there is the...
To Survive More Frequent Hurricanes, Puerto Rico Needs to Rethink Preparedness
In the midst of an active hurricane season, Puerto Rico has suffered yet again. Thanks to Fiona, which crashed into...
Hair loss could one day be treated by hair follicles grown in laboratory
By modifying the embryonic skin cells of mice, researchers created hair follicles that grew up to 3 millimetres long over...
A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface—Using Shadows
The team tested their approach on an area centered in the Mare Ingenii, a region on the far side of...
Snailfish: Surprisingly bright blue fish discovered in the darkest ocean depths
Most snailfish living in the deepest ocean realm known as the hadal zone are ghostly white with tiny eyes. But...
The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps
“It may be that stimulation of the nucleus accumbens altered the reward circuitry in the brain such that it turned...
A Boom in Renewable Energy Has Blunted the Global Rise in Emissions
For months, there was a fear among energy observers that 2022 would turn into a carbon bomb for the planet....
California has lost more groundwater than held in all its reservoirs
By James Dinneen The New Melones Reservoir in CaliforniaGeorge Rose/Getty Images California’s Central Valley has lost roughly 85 cubic kilometres...
A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating
The world’s biggest digital camera is finally coming into focus. While a very powerful personal camera might have megapixel resolution,...
How Hurricanes Batter Mental Health
As Hurricane Rita bore down on the bayous of southeastern Texas in 2005, Caitlin Eaves’s family made the wrenching decision...
Megadrought: Shocking images show scale of devastation in North America
By Leah Crane South-western North America is experiencing a megadroughtNASA Earth Observatory South-western North America is deep in a drought,...
War Is an Ecological Disaster—but Ukraine Can Build Back Greener
Wartime contamination is happening indirectly as well, Denisov says. During normal operations, coal mines in Donbas, for instance, have to...
Fights between U.S. States and the National Government Are Endangering Public Health
Americans have long been proud of our federalism, the way that we divide governmental power between the states and national...
Artificial intelligence: AIs built by Meta beat human experts at Diplomacy
In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook's parent company Meta outplayed...
If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon
Like anything else, water is great in moderation—urbanites need it to survive, but downpours can flood streets and homes. And...
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