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DIY contraption for making all-natural makeup lets you be the world’s prettiest chemist
With a few basic ingredients (water, scented plants like roses or lavender, and bases like beeswax or almond oil), this invention concocts eyeliner, scented balms, and other beautifying products.
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Confirmed: Fracking triggers quakes and seismic chaos
A new study in Science links tremors near Midwest injection sites with huge quakes thousands of miles away.
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Arkansas tar-sands spill was an accident 60 years in the making
The oil pipeline that ruptured beneath Mayflower was defective when was laid in the 1940s. Why didn't Exxon know? Where else was the flawed piping used?
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Here comes the son: Barry Goldwater Jr. fights for solar power in Arizona
Barry Goldwater Jr. is putting the family name behind an effort to protect solar energy's growing share of the electricity market.
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“Solid Rain” keeps plants hydrated even in droughts
Usually, we try to steer clear of mysterious powder imported from Mexico, but "Solid Rain" has us rethinking that maxim.
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Look what the gas and oil industry did to the Gulf of Mexico — again
Efforts to plug a retired natural gas well off Louisiana's coastline went awry this week, triggering a leak. Now there's an ugly sheen covering several square miles.
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Obama likes broccoli, and thanks to science, soon you will too
Scientists are tinkering with the way broccoli tastes, looks, and grows, in an effort to get us to eat more of it. Sounds like a liberal government conspiracy.
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Meat industry doesn’t want to tell you where your meat comes from
Big Meat is suing the USDA because it doesn't like rules that require country-of-origin labels and prohibit the mixing of meats from different countries.
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Invention of the decade saves water AND gets dudes to wash their hands
Presenting the sink urinal.
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Google hosts fundraiser for climate-denying Sen. Jim Inhofe
The lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, is the second show of support from Google for the anti-climate cause in recent weeks.