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The End of El Niño Might Make the Weather Even More Extreme

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Summers keep getting hotter,...

Each of the Past 12 Months Broke Temperature Records

June 2023 did not seem like an exceptional month at the time. It was the warmest June...

Fossil finds amplify Europe’s status as a hotbed of great ape evolution

Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived alongside each...

Geoscientists found the most dangerous part of a famous West Coast fault

The most destructive Cascadian earthquakes are likely to slam offshore of Washington state and Vancouver Island, new...

Wildfire smoke may cause tens of thousands of premature deaths

Wildfire season got off to an early start in Northern California with the Corral Fire, which started...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could help solve these 5 exoplanet puzzles

Detecting exoplanets used to be so difficult that scientists spotted the first black hole, detected the leftover...

The World’s Largest Fungus Collection May Unlock the Mysteries of Carbon Capture

It’s hard to miss the headliners at Kew Gardens. The botanical collection in London is home to...

The Case for MDMA’s Approval Is Riddled With Problems

Only two drugs are formally approved for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and they don’t help everyone....

This protist unfolds its ‘neck’ up to 30 times its body length to scout prey

Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey.  A single-celled protist called Lacrymaria olor uses a helix...

Starship’s Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step Closer to Mars

SpaceX has completed a mostly successful fourth test of its revolutionary new Starship rocket, a key step...

Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt stuck

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers...

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

Climate change. It's bad, and it's getting worse. The main cause is burning fossil fuels, which spews...
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