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Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America
NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles...
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Mangrove Conservation Said to Be Economic CO2 Fix
Protecting mangroves to lock carbon away in trees may be an economic way to curb climate change, research suggests....
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Celebrating Impractical Physicists
Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers? The...
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Dramatic Miniaturization of Metamaterials?
In a vacuum, light travels so fast that it would circle Earth more than seven times within the blink...
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Fish Getting Skin Cancer From UV Radiation
If you’re still skeptical that a tan can be dangerous, consider this: Scientists have found that wild fish are...
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Greenhouse Gas Continues To Be Absorbed By Carbon Sinks
In the last 50 years, man has quadrupled his CO2 output, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels. That...
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Sediment Cores From Antarctic Seabed Reveal Ancient Rain Forest
Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago,...
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Did Mayas Use 2,500-Year-Old Chocolate as Condiment or Beverage?
Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula, the first time...
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Is the Natural Gas Industry Buying Academics?
Recently, the University of Texas provost announced he would reexamine a report by a UT professor that said fracking...
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Higgs Boson Results From LHC ‘Get Even Stronger’
The Higgs boson-like particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July looks significantly more certain to exist. The particle...