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The Curiosity rover left space trash all over Mars
Next time, NASA should also send some kind of robot maid.
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Enough with the Christmas cookies: Five unpredictable homemade food gifts
These ideas will help you think outside the cookie tin.
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China has plans for a victory garden in space
It's is very, very hard to get fresh, local veggies in space. But China has a solution.
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement Between LA and Nevada Tribe
Today Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an agreement to purchase enough solar energy from Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes to power 105,000 Los Angeles homes. (That’s him at the podium above making the announcement in front of a new array of solar panels at Occidental College). This ground-breaking agreement is great news for everyone […]
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French catfish jump onto dry land to eat pigeons
We're quite certain those fish are going around telling all the other fish not only that pigeons are a delicacy one must taste to appreciate the tender richness of the meat but that you're really meant to call them squab.
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Please don’t brush off this request
With your help, Grist can draw more eyeballs and recruit more agents of change.
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The Earth at night like you’ve never seen it before
NASA has put together these amazing composite pictures, drawn from images collected on cloud-free nights.
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Just like Gangnam Style, Big Ag ‘Farmer Style’ is unsustainable
This parody unintentionally has a lot in common with Gangnam Style.
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Severe weather can change minds — some minds, anyway
Climate skeptics won't be swayed by a big hurricane, but average folks might be if a trusted person helps them connect the dots, according to a new study.
