An early experiment at a city landfill showed how algae and sunlight can repair environmental damage.
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A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
February 22, 2019Natalie Wolchover writes about physicists’ effort to find laws that explain the physical world and the nature of the universe.
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Lara Adler on Environmental Toxins and Chronic Disease
February 22, 2019Lara Adler on Environmental Toxins and Chronic Disease. You know, for a lot of us this new landscape is not leading towards positive health outcomes. So I look at, you…
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A Growing Number of Ranchers are Turning to Sustainable Grazing
February 22, 2019Here’s how one cattle ranching family in South Dakota restored a prairie, wildlife habitat, and a creek.
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A new law came into effect in France on the first day of 2019 that sets an important standard in western Europe for the protection of nighttime darkness.
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Deploy the space harpoon
February 16, 2019The space harpoon is part of the RemoveDEBRIS project, a multi-organization European effort to create and test methods of reducing space debris. There are thousands of little pieces of who knows…
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How a Love of Flowers Helped Charles Darwin Validate Natural Selection
February 13, 2019Though his voyage to the Galapagos and his work with finches dominate the narrative of the famed naturalist, he was, at heart, a botanist
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Just for fun: Tour alien worlds
February 12, 2019Some fun multimedia from NASA, including (free) Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters, cool 360-degree visualizations, and a journey into the life and death of planetary system.
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2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
February 8, 2019NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that…
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Listen: Is our universe a hologram?
February 3, 2019A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics, in under 5 minutes.