Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’
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The effects of the climate crisis and a lack of jobs are driving young people away from the Andean highlands but a long-shunned crop could
Read moreNASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to have its second close encounter with an asteroid
A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several asteroid flybys
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The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to
Read moreLichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for
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Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a gigantic tower of gas and dust
As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula,
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