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A reluctant deal finalised at the COP29 climate summit isn't generous enough to encourage nations to submit more ambitious ...

Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron ...

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Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

More than 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and ...

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down ...

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate ...