The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon in another year got their first look…
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Scientists look beyond climate change and El Nino for other factors that heat up Earth
Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Niño have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s…
Over a million acres of tribal land submerged by dams in the US, study shows
Dam constructions have flooded over 1.13 million acres (4,570 km2) of tribal land in the US…
Chemical contamination on International Space Station is out of this world, study shows
Concentrations of potentially harmful chemical compounds in dust collected from air filtration systems on the International…
Vaccination campaign protects endangered wild cattle from highly contagious potentially fatal skin disease
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture…
New technique measures structured light in a single shot
Structured light waves with spiral phase fronts carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), attributed to the rotational…
Nitrogen runoff strategies complicated by climate change
As climate change progresses, rising temperatures may impact nitrogen runoff from land to lakes and streams…
The 'unknome': A database of human genes we know almost nothing about
Researchers from the United Kingdom hope that a new, publicly available database they have created will…
Forests are breaking up in the tropics but coming together elsewhere. Here's what it means for wildlife and the climate
In 2015, research on global forest cover revealed a concerning fact: 70% of the world’s remaining…
If this heat isn't bad enough, new study says snakebites are another risk
It’s hot out there. How hot? Hot enough to scald a lizard. Hot enough to fry…