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It is hard to conceive of a planetary crisis more threatening than the one we are negotiating with COVID-19. According to experts like Julian Cribb, an internationally acclaimed science writer, ...

If you’re stuck on what to buy as Christmas gifts this year, a Swiss start-up has a suggestion: some carbon dioxide. Climeworks AG owns the world’s largest direct-air carbon capture ...

Rescuers in Indonesia raced to find survivors in villages blanketed by molten ash Sunday after the eruption of Mount Semeru killed at least 13 people and left dozens injured, officials ...

How much warming do climate scientists really think is in store for our future, if they had to put a number on it?  World leaders gathering for the U.N. climate ...

The exoplanet community already has ways to detect an H2 atmosphere by transmission spectroscopy. However, the mass of the H2 atmosphere – the parameter that controls the temperature at the ...

This story was part of our November 2021 issue To his credit, Azhar duly notes the problems arising from the fast transformations brought about by these technologies, most notably what ...

U.S. health officials are keeping a close eye on an emerging Covid-19 subvariant, dubbed "delta plus," that some scientists…

Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have never seen eye to eye. However, lately, both have missed not one opportunity to show the other ...

Topline A police investigation has kicked off in Berlin after several employees at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin reported experiencing symptoms that line up with the mysterious Havana Syndrome that ...

In a landmark announcement today, the World Health Organization has recommended the use of the first-ever malaria vaccine. RTS,S, also known as Mosquirix. Specifically, the WHO says it should be ...