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Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025
For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge...
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BBC Inside Science – How did President Trump transform science in 2025? – BBC Sounds
Available for 34 daysThis week President Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget announced that a major climate research centre would be broken up. 2025 has brought a wave of reorganisations and funding cuts, reshaping the ways...
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Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience
Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and each other...
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Bronze Age mass burial site mystery near Sanquhar wind farm
Giancarlo RinaldiSouth Scotland reporterGuard Archaeology"What is significant about the Twentyshilling remains is that they were cremated and then buried almost immediately," he said.He said that was unusual as there was "quite a tradition" in the Bronze Age of leaving...
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Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havens
The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.The prairie-doglike Belding’s ground squirrel...
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Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more power
Barbara Kates-Garnick, Professor of Practice in Energy Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University -
Everyone – politicians and the public – is talking about energy costs. In particular, they’re talking about data centers that drive artificial intelligence systems and their increasing energy demand, electricity costs and strain on the...
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How cement “breathes in” and stores millions of tons of CO₂ a year
The world’s most common construction material has a secret. Cement, the “glue” that holds concrete together, gradually...
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From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
The Arctic is transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when the first Arctic Report Card assessed the state of Earth’s far northern environment.The snow season is dramatically...
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Introducing the Minerals Stewardship Consortium at MIT
Mining provides the raw materials that form the backbone of many critical sectors, including construction and infrastructure,...
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The North Pole keeps moving – here’s how that affects Santa’s holiday travel and yours
When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so hard that the reindeer can’t see the way.He could use a compass,...
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Russian general killed by bomb under his car and Moscow says Ukraine a possible culprit
Moscow — A Russian general was killed Monday morning when an explosive device detonated underneath...
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