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It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.
The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be an argument over Thanksgiving dinner. Some people, though maybe not all, can be persuaded.
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]
A new study compared cognitive boosts from running versus relaxing.
Does wishing someone well actually affect their health?
The government hopes to see 1.5 million electric cars on roads by 2030.
The nightmare scenario of no new particles or interactions at the LHC is coming true. And it might be our own fault. Over at the Large Hadron Collider, protons simultaneously circle […]
Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?
It may create the conditions for further inequality.
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
If antimatter falls up instead of down, countless sci-fi dreams will become scientific reality. One of the most astonishing facts about science is how universally applicable the laws of nature […]
Synthetic biology is changing the way the planet works.
The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
These three things can help you make smarter and faster decisions.
The greatest danger to our planet is not pollution or climate change, but our own despair.
The American track record of using the U.S. military to protect oil markets is “lousy” and often makes the problems worse, says political scientist Eugene Gholz.
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The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
Without this one ingredient, there wouldn’t be enough ‘glue’ to hold the Universe together. Of all the things in the Universe to be thankful for — the stars, planets, atoms, molecules, and […]
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
It’s a record magnetic field, but… yeah. That didn’t last long.
The thin ribbon is a rare and spectacular celestial phenomenon, but so much more than a mere aurora. It isn’t often that skywatchers discover a new naked-eye phenomenon in astronomy, but […]