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Skeletal remains of new dinosaur weighing as much as 9 elephants discovered by scientists: “The last titan”
Scientists have identified a massive new dinosaur from remains discovered in Thailand, with the creature estimated to have weighed as…
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How a growing El Niño will affect 2026 hurricane season in Atlantic and Pacific
As the globe transitions into an El Niño climate pattern, temperatures in the waters in the Pacific Ocean are on…
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Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks
Close, sustained contact. That, health officials have repeatedly said, is the only way that the Andes hantavirus, which caused an…
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NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars this week, on voyage to rare metal asteroid
A NASA spacecraft headed toward the asteroid belt will fly past Mars on Friday, aiming to get a boost from…
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Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes.
A company at the forefront of solar geoengineering — the notion that blocking radiation from the sun could cool a…
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With a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win
Over lunch at his golf club in Jupiter, Fla., on the first Saturday of May, President Trump got an earful…
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5 Great Stargazing Trains – The New York Times
Stargazing, it turns out, doesn’t have to be a stationary activity. On railway lines around the world, from the Arctic…
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Lithuania’s Peat Bogs Could Help the Climate and Defend the Border, Too
In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches…
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Wildfires Strike Florida, Georgia and America’s ‘Wood Basket’
Florida and Georgia are seeing an unusually severe and early start to a wildfire season that is shaping up to…
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Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.
When Mauna Loa erupted in 1885, it enveloped native forests on the island of Hawaii in a layer of basaltic…
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