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Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton
We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These...
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Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
Planetary scientists agree that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface and a water-rich atmosphere, far different...
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Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is...
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Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is...
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War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
Ezgi Canpolat, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University -
The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow...
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Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
2026 marks the dawn of a momentous era: humankind taking our first steps towards colonising Mars.
Later this year, NASA’s...
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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to...
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The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of...
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Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and...
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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen,...
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Judge temporarily halts construction of Trump’s White House ballroom
The Republican-appointed judge ruled that Trump was the "steward" of the White House, but not the "owner".
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