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Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman – a much higher fertility rate than previously believed – to reliably ...

A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric ...

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Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history and its source deep beneat ...

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It's one of the great boomer vs. millennial debates: Do you have to sort your laundry? It's tedious to pull apart lights and ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, better known as SETI, has its roots just as much in Cold War politics as it has in human curiosity. That’s the thesis of a new book called Mixed Signals: ...

Scientists and engineers are developing high-performance materials from eco-friendly sources like plant waste. A key component, lignocellulose – found in wood and many plants – can be easily collected ...

Most of us have heard of Schrödinger’s eponymous cat, but it is not the only feline in the quantum physics bestiary. Quantum Cheshire cats may not be as well known, yet their behaviour is even more ...

Recently, finance and insurance experts have begun warning that climate change might spell the end of capitalism as we know it. Blind alarmism or reasonable fear? Let’s ...