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This video was supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. TRANSCRIPT Maria Temming: In 2021, a historic heat […]
In an epic cosmology clash, rival scientists begin to find common ground
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A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A
A materials scientist seeks to extract lithium from untapped sources
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Can solar farms and crop farms coexist?
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Earth’s ancient ‘greenhouse’ conditions were hotter than thought
Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.
Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics to the quantum age
Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top
Climate change could double U.S. temperature-linked deaths by mid-century
Heat-related deaths in the United States are on the rise. But how bad will it be 20, 30 or 40
A neutrino mass mismatch could shake cosmology’s foundations
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A biogeochemist is tracking the movements of toxic mercury pollution
One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at