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One square inch of glass will make your data live forever
It’s nigh-indestructible.
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For sale: Ocean floor, ready for drillin’
The government will auction off 38 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to fossil-fuel extractors next year.
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Even as L.A. pollution drops, cars are giving kids asthma
Air pollution is down in L.A., but near highways it's still high -- and that's bad news for kids' lungs.
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Romney coal-miner ad provokes complaint to FEC
A progressive group in Ohio has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission about the ad featuring miners forced to attend a Romney rally.
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And now for something really surprising: Sugary drinks linked to weight gain
New research backs up larger efforts to limit kids' access to soda, but the findings are also more complex than they may sound.
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Soon we’ll be able to grow leather in a test tube
By the end of the year, scientists will have grown a piece of leather .787 inches by .787 inches in size, without killing an animal. That is the goal of a company called Modern Meadow, Fast Company reports, and its lab-grown leather could one day be even better than the dead-animal hides that we still […]
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How to prepare yourself for the Baconpocalypse
An industry trade group says that "a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable” due to the summer’s crazy weather.
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Ice isn’t the only thing melting in the Arctic
Arctic snow on land is melting at an even faster rate per decade than the ice.
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360,000 bees are staying at the Waldorf Astoria
There are bees living at the Waldorf Astoria, which is really cute, in a way, since they make honey, and really gross when you think about how a bee farm is just a creepy way for a hotel to pretend it is anything but part of a huge, gross, corporation.
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A road map for urban agriculture in N.Y.C.
The new Five Borough Farm report lays out a clear vision for the future of urban farming in the Big Apple.
