In the midst of climate change, awareness of humanity’s negative impact on the planet has grown, making the idea of moving to ...

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Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

Wetlands are the planet’s quiet infrastructure, storing floodwater, filtering pollution, cooling coastlines, and feeding ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

I don't often cry while reading a comic book. But these words on the dedication page of "Galaxy: The Prettiest Star" brought ...

The explosive growth of AI is straining power grids, water supplies and land worldwide. Now, from Silicon Valley to Europe, companies are asking whether the future of the cloud lies beyond the planet ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

This is the context for the Mercator map, the one that shows Greenland looking like a hulking prize to Donald Trump. The ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

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That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...