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An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount ...

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Richard Weinberg says his father, the former ORNL director, was scarred by the Great Depression and saw a change in ...

Engineers from RMIT University have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help drastically reduce the ...

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NASA says its Atmospheric Waves Instrument (AWE) recorded a series of intense gravity waves at high altitudes during ...

Rather than a potential triumph, the compostable plastics we use look increasingly like a tragedy. Andy Extance looks at the ...

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