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10-year-old discovers new energy-storing molecule by accident
Fifth-grader Clara Lazen was just messing around with a molecule modeling kit in class, trying to construct a stable molecule that followed basic chemistry rules. What she ended up with was a completely novel molecular structure, and a coauthor credit in the resulting journal article. Man, what were YOU discovering when you were 10? Masturbation […]
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Risky business: States require insurers to plan for climate change
After a record-setting year of climate disasters in the U.S., insurance companies in three states will now have to assess risks related to climate change.
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Killer tale: Lessons from a lonely orca
When a lone killer whale started befriending humans in a Canadian cove, he sparked a controversy over how we interact with animals. We talked to the journalists who filmed the story in the Ryan Reynolds-narrated documentary The Whale.
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The Wall Street Journal’s willful climate lies
The WSJ opinion page spreading climate misinformation is nothing new. But its latest op-ed promotes straight-up lies that editors and scientists must know are false.
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Kristen Bell loses her mind over a sloth
OK, real talk for a second? This is almost certainly how I would react if a sloth came to my birthday party:
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Invasive pythons have eaten literally everything in Everglades
In the Everglades, recent counts reveal that 88 percent of bobcats, 99 percent of raccoons and opossums, and effectively 100 percent of rabbits and foxes have simply disappeared from the park.
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Our waste heat warms the atmosphere, too — and it’s getting worse
Waste heat could directly warm industrialized parts of the world by between 0.4 °C and 0.9 °C by 2100.
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The heat trapped by global warming equals 1 million Hiroshima bombs a day
"The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy terms to almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs each year."
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Capsized by the rising tide: Does growth lead to income inequality?
The “rising tide” of global economic growth is lifting mostly yachts. But some nations show that inequality and environmental ruin don't have to be inevitable outcomes of economic growth.
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‘Winter Jam Canceled Due to Lack of Winter’
The New York City parks department’s annual Winter Jam in Prospect Park has been nixed due to unseasonably warm temperatures — it’s kind of hard to have winter sports demonstrations when you don’t have any winter. (There is basically no way we could improve on the Times headline about the decision, so we’re just gonna let that sit […]