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Astronauts return to Earth with SpaceX after 5 months at the International Space Station
Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve ...
Our DNA analysis of 75,000-year-old bones in Arctic caves reveals how animals responded to changing climates
As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to survive the cold face unprecedented ...
Indigenous communities plead for action at plastic pollution talks
Indigenous communities from North America are at talks on a global treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, pleading the case ...
Using geometry and physics to explain feature learning in deep neural networks
Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and ...
Climate-fueled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects
Insects are arguably the most important animals on the planet. Their variety is unparalleled in nature, and they carry out ...
Four days left to square the circle on global plastic pollution treaty
Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge.
Feel sticky this summer? That's because it's been record muggy East of the Rockies
More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has ...
A giant virus wags its tail
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose ...