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Plants Appear To Be Trying To Rescue Us From Climate Change

For decades, we’ve been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again. In f...

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Sustainable Development

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for...

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Sustainable Development

NASA And FEMA Practiced Emergency Operations For An Asteroid Impact

The year is 2020 and Los Angeles is about to be wiped off the face of the planet. You’ve known this day was coming since the fall of 2016, when the asteroid that is o...

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Environment

Oil Drilling Caused Killer Earthquake In Boomtime California, Scientists Suspect

Several damaging Los Angeles-area earthquakes of the 1920s and 1930s, including the deadliest ever in southern California, may have been brought on by oil production during...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Are Using the Enzyme That Makes Fireflies Glow to Track Brain Cells

Fireflies and other bioluminescence-producing species (e.g. bacteria, jellyfish, worms, sharks) create light through a chemical reaction in their body catalyzed by an enzym...

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Health

It’s 2016. Why Don’t We Have A Male Contraceptive Pill?

It’s a question that scientists have been trying to solve for decades - with promising developments, new research, new methods, and terms like “dry orgasm&rdquo...

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Health

Male Contraception: Birth Control Pill For Men May Be Coming

After decades of research, experiments and failure, scientists may have finally made the breakthrough needed to create a non-barrier contraception for men that doesn’...

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Environment

The Great Barrier Reef Is Under Severe Stress – But Not Dead Yet

Reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef have been greatly exaggerated, scientists have said, after the publication of an “obituary” for the vas...

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Sustainable Development

23 Million Year Old Leaves Helped Solve An Antarctic Climate Mystery

As Antarctica melts, it’s releasing centuries’ worth of locked-away ice into the ocean and pushing sea levels higher. It’s scary stuff. But it also isn&rs...

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Sustainable Development

This Is What It's Like To Be Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator

Now you can see scientists try to make space for a giant 360 degree camera-ball while they’re hard at work helping uncover the origins of the universe: the European O...

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