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The US is investing more than $1 billion in carbon capture, but big oil is still involved: 1PointFive is helping oversee one plant in Texas. It also has direct ties to one of the world's largest fossil fuel producers.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/carbon-capture-plants-doe/
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Birth defects related to chromosomal abnormalities often stem from exposure to chemicals early in the mother's life. But determining which chemicals are at fault poses a serious challenge—akin to solving a hit-and-run case, decades after the fact. Two researchers in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences are developing a method that could identify harmful chemicals far more quickly, with the help of red- and green-glowing zebrafish.

Air pollution linked with global rise in antibiotic resistance:
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-air-pollution-linked-global-antibiotic.html
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The Antarctic strawberry feather star is one of four new related species believed to have been discovered by a team of marine scientists.

In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later people get angry about it. What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you think you know.

Many others thought they knew. They saw hundreds of years of scientific progress, shifting paradigms, and explosive arguments behind them, and decided they were at the end. The K-Pg extinction was settled. Then it exploded again. And again. And it kept exploding way more than any layperson today really appreciates, revealing more about science and its communication than you ever imagined.

This is the story of the mass extinction debates.

Researchers have identified a new pack of endangered gray wolves in California: A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-endangered-gray-wolves-california.html
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In the refrigerated grocery store aisle, meat alternatives greatly outnumber plant-based seafoods. But more mock seafood options are needed because of unsustainable fishing and aquaculture practices, which can deplete the supply and harm the environment.

$1.2 billion program marks a global first for a controversial strategy for fighting climate change

The transparent, chargeless quasiparticle could shed more light on the underlying mechanics of superconductivity

A new finding boosts Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth originated in deep space.

This cross-sectional study uses validated instruments to assess long-term decisional regret and satisfaction following gender-affirming mastectomy.

A pair of University of Central Florida researchers has developed new methods to produce energy and materials from the harmful greenhouse gas, methane.

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Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.

If the idea of adding fermented seaweed to meals at home isn't yet appealing, Ólavur Gregersen believes it soon will be.

The sun unleashed its second X-flare in less than three days — and we should brace for more such activity.

EG.5, which is unofficially nicknamed Eris, has already become the most prevalent variant in the U.S.

The fastest-evolving moss in the world may not adapt to climate change: The hardy genus Takakia has survived 400 million years but is losing ground in the Himalayas
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fastest-evolving-moss-adapt-climate-change

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“I was feeling like I was dreaming. It seemed so unreal. This is because my results did not match any previous results," said astronomer Kyu-Hyun Chae.

Ancient faeces contains the first evidence that terrestrial vertebrates living during the Late Triassic epoch hosted multiple parasites

The European climate monitoring organization made it official Tuesday: July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record. And by a wide margin.

Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers.

We used AI to help airlines choose routes that are less likely to cause contrails, minimizing the environmental impact of flights.

Archaeologists previously believed the Tibetan plateau was one of the last places to be settled by humans or hominins – over the past couple of decades that notion has been slowly but comprehensively blown apart

Scientists have created an "unknome" of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not