China’s CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked
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China’s CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked
China has rapidly become the world leader in renewable energy, but continued coal use means it could take longer for its emissions to decline
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How an Overlooked Eruption May Have Sparked the Black Death
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Did a Volcano Set the Stage for the Black Death?
The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly
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Can We Image Alien Earths? This Newfound Object Could Show the Way
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Can We Image Alien Earths? This Newfound Object Could Show the Way
Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earth-like exoplanets
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Scientists Pinpoint Gene in Sperm That May Be Key to Male Infertility
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Scientists Spot a Sperm Protein That Could Explain Male Infertility
Without the gene Poc5, male mice produced no viable sperm, pointing to a possible link to infertility
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NASA Faces Its Future at Jared Isaacman’s Confirmation Hearing
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NASA Faces Its Future at Jared Isaacman’s Confirmation Hearing
Jared Isaacman—the presumptive next leader of NASA—answered questions about his plans for the future of U.S. space exploration on Wednesday
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Autonomous Deep-Sea Robots to Lead New Search for Missing Flight MH370
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Autonomous Deep-Sea Robots to Lead New Search for Missing Flight MH370
Texas-based firm Ocean Infinity will send swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles into the southern Indian Ocean in a high-risk attempt to locate ...
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Scientists Just Tore Up a Major Particle Physics Theory
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Scientists Just Tore Up a Major Particle Physics Theory
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino
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