- As a controversial bill nears passage in Brazil, environmentalists and civil society prepare for what they call the “last stand” to save the Amazon.
- Brazil’s Senate approved a sweeping reform of environmental…
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Amazon’s ‘tipping point road’ gets new push with ease on licensing rules
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Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER)
GEER is a world-class facility designed to simulate extreme environments.
The Surface of Venus – Here on Earth
The Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER) is a high-tech pressure vessel capable of simulating the temperature, pressure, and…
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Ancient Riverbeds on Mars Suggest the Planet Was Wetter and More Complex Than Previously Thought
Today’s Mars is a desert coated in rust-colored dust. But this wasn’t the case 3.7 billion years ago, according to new research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2025 in Durham, U.K., suggesting the…
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Oldest Known Interstellar Comet May Precede Our Solar System
What can a newly discovered interstellar comet teach scientists about solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2025 hopes to address as a…
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Popular sugar substitute could raise the risk of blood clots and stroke
From low-carb ice cream to keto protein bars to “sugar-free” soda, the decades-old sweetener erythritol is everywhere.
But new University of Colorado Boulder research shows the popular sugar substitute and specialty food additive…
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NASA just snapped the closest photos of the Sun ever taken
NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken several records along the way. Now, it…
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Hot dispute over impact — Harvard Gazette
Sometime early in the history of life on Earth, a meteor at least 1 kilometer wide came screaming through the atmosphere and slammed into what is now Western Australia. The impact likely unleashed a cataclysm — a fireball estimated to be more…
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Protein signatures may help predict malaria severity and guide treatment
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified over 250 proteins that are strongly affected by malaria, which could help predict the severity of the disease and thus enable faster treatment for the most critical patients.
The…
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AI Finds 386 Potential Antibiotics in Animal Venoms
To identify new antimicrobial candidates, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania mined global venomics datasets using a deep-learning system called APEX.
Guan et al. demonstrate that venoms are a rich source of previously hidden…
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Researchers may have found first Mercury meteorites
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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments…
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