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Why Dumping Seawater on Blazes Isn’t the Answer to California’s Wildfire Problem

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Firefighters battling the deadly wildfires that...

Influencers Are Hawking Wellness Products in Response to the LA Fires

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As wildfires continue...

Cigarettes with less nicotine may help some smokers quit

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move...

Survivors of the LA fires will face a complex blend of mental health challenges

Even as firefighters are starting to gain ground on the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, residents there...

What nuclear weapons experts will watch for under Trump 

It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear...

Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?

In olden times, people dug holes in the ground to look for gold. They called it mining....

See 6 Planets Align on January 21

Observing the planets is one of the most awe-inspiring ways to witness the magic of the night...

An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60

As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been...

Early human ancestors didn’t regularly eat meat

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than...

Megadroughts are on the rise worldwide

Megadroughts are increasing worldwide — and they’re also becoming both hotter and drier. Over the last 30...

Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury

At 06:59 Central European time time on January 8, the BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its sixth flyby...

A crumbling exoplanet spills its guts

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s...
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