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Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

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Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

The findings are alarming: private jet emissions reached 15.6 megatons of CO₂ in 2023, a figure equivalent to the annual ...

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The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...