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The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at the pace needed to have a significant role in meeting climate ...

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The trails of cold water hurricanes leave in their wake are warming up faster, giving an energy boost to storms that follow ...

Artificial intelligence has removed many of the barriers to understanding a new language, but there are still good reasons to ...

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Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...