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Carbon-friendlier alternatives for your life
Artist Michael Oliveri captures the tiniest products of materials science
Novel way to fight the decades-long decline of fish populations
Flashlights that power themselves, bags that dissolve, and more
The never-ending war against spam scored a rare victory recently when a federal judge in San Jose, California ordered a prolific spammer to pay Facebook a whopping $873 million in damages for unleashing a torrent of unsavory messages on the social network's members...
Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is making the Pacific coast acidic far more rapidly than previously believed, potentially wreaking havoc for creatures living in it that are unable to tolerate the swiftly changing environment.
Ecologists at the University of Chicago tracked the acidity of the Pacific off an island close to Washington state over the course of eight years...
The striped bass population in San Francisco Bay has been plummeting since the 1970s and now scientists know why: fish moms are passing down damaging pollutants in the water to their young, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
When sea ice disappears some polar inhabitants advance, whereas others retreat
Hormones or pain pills may be the key
Paper airplane contest awards the flimsy fliers that are a cut above the rest
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