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Over the Past Six Months the UK Generated More Energy From Solar Than Coal

Over the Past Six Months the UK Generated More Energy From Solar Than Coal

By Jelor Gallego

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An Underwater “Continent” Could Reveal Secrets About Earth’s Distant Past

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A Record-Breaking 29% of the U.K.’s Electricity Is Now Generated by Renewables

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The Next Car You Buy Could Be Solar-Powered

By June Javelosa

Wales Sets New Goal of 70 Percent Clean Energy Generation by 2030

Wales Sets New Goal of 70 Percent Clean Energy Generation by 2030

By Patrick Caughill

Life May Have Emerged on Earth Earlier Than We Previously Thought

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Life May Have Emerged on Earth Earlier Than We Previously Thought

New Security Protocol Seeks to Ensure Messages are Truly Private

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New Security Protocol Seeks to Ensure Messages are Truly Private

Pollution From Ships is Causing Lightning Storms Over Ocean Shipping Lanes

Pollution From Ships is Causing Lightning Storms Over Ocean Shipping Lanes

A Startup Claims to Have Found a Solution to Stabilize Nuclear Fusion

A Startup Claims to Have Found a Solution to Stabilize Nuclear Fusion

A Budget Airline and EV Startup Want to Bring Electric Airplanes to the Skies

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A Budget Airline and EV Startup Want to Bring Electric Airplanes to the Skies

Expert Asserts That All Cars in China Will be Electric by 2030

Expert Asserts That All Cars in China Will be Electric by 2030

New Research Shows how the Brain Processes our Experiences

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New Research Shows how the Brain Processes our Experiences

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Researchers Discover the Brain Uses One Mechanism to Assess All Five Senses

Dyson Is Spending $2.6 Billion to Build an Electric Car by 2020

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Dyson Is Spending $2.6 Billion to Build an Electric Car by 2020

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A 100-Square Mile Chunk of the Pine Island Glacier Just Broke Away

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Evaporation-Harvested Energy Could Meet 70% of the United States’ Power Needs

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Researchers Have Designed a Type of Aluminum That’s Lighter Than Water

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These Fifteen New Spiders Were Named for Celebrity Activists, Including Bernie Sanders

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA’s New “Gravity Map” Corrects Fundamental Assumption About Mars

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NASA’s New “Gravity Map” Corrects Fundamental Assumption About Mars

By Patrick Caughill

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

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Can Dam Failures Like Puerto Rico’s Guajataca Be Prevented?

For the Sixth Time in 300 Years, Britain Will Contain No Snow

For the Sixth Time in 300 Years, Britain Will Contain No Snow

By Patrick Caughill

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It’s Definitely Possible to Turn Greenhouse Gases into Fuel Feedstock

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Engineers Have Found a Way to 3D Print Super Strong Aluminum

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MIT’s “Innovation Orchard” is Investing $200 Million in Tough Tech Startups

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Overlooked DNA Leads Researchers to The “Big Bang” of Immune Cell Development

Researchers Establish New Scale to Measure a Person’s Wisdom

Researchers Establish New Scale to Measure a Person’s Wisdom

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Quantum “Flashes” Could Be Responsible for the Creation of Gravity

This Could Be The West’s Worst Fire Season Ever

This Could Be The West’s Worst Fire Season Ever

By Claudia Geib

New Research Suggests Cosmic Rays Hail From Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

New Research Suggests Cosmic Rays Hail From Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

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Scientists Just Sequenced An 18 Million Year Old Species That Cloned Itself

Scientists May Have Discovered the ‘Trigger’ for Complex Life on Earth

Scientists May Have Discovered the ‘Trigger’ for Complex Life on Earth

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We Can Still Meet Ambitious 1.5C Paris Climate Target

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Solar Power Is Becoming Accessible, Dropping More Than a Quarter in Just One Year

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These 7 Countries Want to Say Goodbye to Fossil Fuel-Based Cars

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By 2100, Our Carbon Usage May Be Enough to Trigger a 10,000-Year-Long Ecological Disaster

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New Research May Explain the Origin of Complex Life on Earth

New Study Reveals Microbial Communities’ Full Impact on Human Health

New Study Reveals Microbial Communities’ Full Impact on Human Health

Why the “Murder” of the Modern Energy Industry Is Key to Securing a Bright Future

Why the “Murder” of the Modern Energy Industry Is Key to Securing a Bright Future

By Tirthak Saha

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DARPA: We Need a New Microchip Technology to Sustain Advances in AI

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An Electric Bus Just Broke the World Record for Distance Traveled on a Single Charge

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Genetic Engineering Could Allow Us to Treat or Even Prevent Obesity

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Data From NASA’s Fifth HI-SEAS Isolation Mission Will Influence Who Goes to Mars

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New York Is the First City to Require Building Owners to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

DARPA’s Autonomous System Can Fly and Land a Helicopter with Just a Tablet

DARPA’s Autonomous System Can Fly and Land a Helicopter with Just a Tablet

“Octlantis” Discovery Proves Octopuses Are More Social Than We Thought

“Octlantis” Discovery Proves Octopuses Are More Social Than We Thought

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Downplaying Our Involvement in Climate Change is “Simply Irresponsible”

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Downplaying Our Involvement in Climate Change is “Simply Irresponsible”

The World’s First All-Electric Yacht Has a 40-Mile Range and a $500,000 Price Tag

The World’s First All-Electric Yacht Has a 40-Mile Range and a $500,000 Price Tag

Is the Trump Administration Changing Its Mind About the Paris Climate Agreement?

Nine Pictures That Show How Climate Change Is Impacting Earth

Nine Pictures That Show How Climate Change Is Impacting Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A $10 Billion Renewable Energy Startup Just Unveiled Their Largest Onshore Wind Turbine

A $10 Billion Renewable Energy Startup Just Unveiled Their Largest Onshore Wind Turbine

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Today, California Will Vote on a Bill Pushing for 100% Renewable Energy by 2045

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Researchers Have Linked a Human Brain to the Internet for the First Time Ever

By Patrick Caughill

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New Backscattered Radio Signal Transmits Data 2.8 Kilometers with Minimal Power

Supercomputing Is Allowing Us to Map Brain Function at the Deepest Levels

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Supercomputing Is Allowing Us to Map Brain Function at the Deepest Levels

New Discovery Makes It Easier to Remove Radioactive Elements From Nuclear Waste

New Discovery Makes It Easier to Remove Radioactive Elements From Nuclear Waste

Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice

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Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice

By Kristin Houser

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Geneticists Have Used CRISPR Gene Editing to Create Crops That Grow More Food

Nanobots Made of DNA Can Now Carry and Sort Molecular Cargo

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Nanobots Made of DNA Can Now Carry and Sort Molecular Cargo

By Alexandra Ossola

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Solar Energy Just Cleared a Pricing Target Set for 2020

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Researchers Find a Fungus that Can Break Down Plastic in Weeks

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A Natural Molecule Has Been Shown to Stop Cancer Cells From Producing Energy

Shape Shifting Space Bacteria Could Help Us Treat Earthly Antibiotic Resistance

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Shape Shifting Space Bacteria Could Help Us Treat Earthly Antibiotic Resistance

Scientists Just Discovered Organisms That Are Distinct From Any Life Forms Known to Science

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Scientists Just Discovered Organisms That Are Distinct From Any Life Forms Known to Science

By Kristin Houser