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Planting trees helps, but what are other ways?

The meteor was green, but the footage capturing it was black and white.

House cats sleep a lot. Wild elephants, way less.

A massive study of mentoring, gender, and career outcomes released by Nature Communications has ignited a firestorm of criticism for its conclusions, which have been labeled as sexist by many scientists on social media. The study is a “black eye” for the popular open-access title, one bioengineer tweeted, adding that […]

He is known as the “father of fractals” for having discovered one of the most important patterns in nature.

Winter is coming…

Dark matter, the invisible stuff whose gravity is thought to hold galaxies together, may be the least satisfying concept in physics. But if you want to get rid of it, a new study finds, you’ll need to replace it with something even more bizarre: a force of gravity that, at […]

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Glycine, an amino acid, can form in interstellar clouds without the heat of a star.