Environment
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brad nesbitt
Dogs and Dingoes Are Not Boning
A pair of dingoes.Image: Robert Lynch (Fair Use) An exhaustive genetic analysis of wild canines in Australia is challenging the…
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arctic
There’s Way More Lightning in the Arctic Now
Photo: Ariel Schalit (AP) The Northern Lights have some competition. New research shows that lightning in the Arctic tripled over…
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air pollution
California’s Policies to Reduce Air Pollution Are Working
Traffic comes to a stand still on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near LAX.Photo:…
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Tornadoes Tear Through Alabama, Shutting Down Amazon Warehouse
Authorities reported several injuries and fatalities in Alabama as tornadoes tore through the Birmingham metro area on Thursday. The storms,…
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aquaculture of sea sponges
Scientists Learn Some Secrets of Deep-Sea Sponges in the Arctic
Footage of the deep-sea sponge ground analyzed in the new study. Image: NIOZ Living at depths approaching an entire mile,…
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environment
Extinct Kangaroo Could Climb Trees With Its Huge Claws
Skulls of the newly described extinct kangaroo.Image: N. Warburton, Murdoch University A new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived…
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Mysterious Bald Eagle Killer Finally Identified
Photo: Doug Pensinger (Getty Images) In a new study out Thursday, scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of a neurological…
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academic disciplines
US Is One Step Closer to Having Program to Study Blocking Sun
A cargo plane on its final approach into Long Beach Airport passes in front a hazy sun caused by smoke…
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applied sciences
Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and…
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basalt
Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Rock Under the Pacific Ocean
A microscopic cross-section of the 49-milion-year-old basalt.Photo: EXP 351 Science Team New basalt just dropped. An international team of scientists…
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