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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
As hurricanes go, Sally was not especially powerful. Rated a Category 2 storm when it struck the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, it was soon downgraded. But climate change likely made it more dangerous by slowing it down and feeding it more moisture, settin...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Researchers have found that under extreme heat and pressure, materials on carbon-rich planets would become diamonds.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Researchers have found that under extreme heat and pressure, materials on carbon-rich planets would become diamonds.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Maybe this year's Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels. An anthropologist who tested an urban legend by fashioning a knife out of frozen human feces, and a man who found...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Using sound waves from underwater earthquakes, researchers can more accurately measure sea temperatures.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
If you're delaying a wedding, a birthday gathering, or a big vacation until the spring or summer of 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci is on your side.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
It began as a stunning light show on a mid-August weekend — lightning bolts crackling in the skies over Northern and Central California, touching down in grasslands and vineyards. The National Weather Service warned that the dry lightning striking a...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
"We may not completely eliminate it," Fauci said of the coronavirus. "But 2022 I think is a pretty good bet" for getting back to a nearly normal life.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The world's most powerful space telescope captured an image of the NGC 2835 galaxy, known as "Eye of the Serpent." It's 35 million light-years away.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The European Union needs to hike its renewable energy and energy saving targets, according to its analysis published on Thursday of how the bloc could make deeper emissions cuts this decade. The European Commission wants the EU to slash its greenhou...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
A Business Insider investigation has identified a network of controversial medics promoting toxic bleach as a miracle cure in Bolivia.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda's forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimpanzees. Private companies are developing timber plantations as buffers next to protected forests....
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Australia is notorious for its venomous spiders, snakes and sea creatures, but researchers have now identified "scorpion-like" toxins secreted by a tree that can cause excruciating pain for weeks.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country — and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. The wildfires racing across tinder-dry landscape in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington ar...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
If carbon emissions continue at current rates, so much mercury will leach from thawing permafrost that fish in the Yukon River could become dangerous to eat within a few decades, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communic...