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Earth's ecosystems nearing catastrophic 'tipping point,' warn scientists (+video)
Our planet is heading toward a sudden breakdown, a group of international scientists warn, unless humans adopt more sustainable practices.
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Report: Humans near tipping point that could dramatically change Earth
Human activity is affecting Earth in many ways, but a new study suggests that continued population growth and its impact on climate and ecology could trigger a more profound chain reaction of effects within little more than a decade.
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Transit of Venus: What to expect (+video)
Venus will cross the face of the sun for the last time until 2117. Here's what it will look like.
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Scientists create artificial DNA molecule
Scientists have successfully created a pair of DNA nucleobases, which, like adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine in natural DNA, can copy themselves nearly as well as the real thing.
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Decoding tomato DNA: Genetics could yield sweeter fruit
Knowing the genetic sequence of one tomato can help seed companies and plant breeders get a grasp on what makes different varieties, like heirloom tomatoes, different from the generic grocery tomato.
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Paralyzed woman masters mind-controlled robotic arm
Cathy Hutchinson is one of two patients undergoing a trial of the BrainGate neural interface, a system designed to transmit paralyzed patients' thoughts into commands.
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Antarctic ice sheet at risk, say scientists
A new study points out an unexpected weakness in the Antarctic ice sheet, which could melt rapidly within the next century, say scientists.
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Surprise: Martian sand dunes are speedy
Rare winds jump-start sand movement on Mars, according to scientists.
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Warm water threatens vast Anatarctic ice shelf (+video)
A new study indicates that a large ice sheet is at risk. Warm water from below is causing it to melt.
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How a solar flare could send us back to the Stone Age
A powerful enough solar flare could knock out our power grids, disrupt our GPS satellites, and bring the global economy to a halt, warns a British scientists.
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Did gassy dinosaurs cause global warming?
A new study found that giant plant-eating dinosaurs could have produced giant quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
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Researchers tinker with bird flu: Are enough safeguards in place?
A new study and one to be published soon on Asian bird flu have prompted debate about safeguards during research and how much access others should have to research details.
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Some dinosaurs were declining before asteroid struck, say scientists (+video)
By the time that giant meteor collided with our planet at the end of the Cretaceous, some dinosaur species were already heading toward extinction, new research indicates.
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How a bizarre ocean current could create coral refuges (+video)
Warming in the Pacific could lead to new currents that create islands of refuge for corals, new research suggests.
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How wind farms could cause local (but not global) warming
The atmospheric turbulence caused by large wind farms could cause local temperature increases, a new study indicates.
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Bizarre cosmic ray mystery deepens (+video)
Humongous space explosions known as gamma ray bursts have been ruled out as a source of the universe's most intense cosmic rays, a new study has found.
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Himalayan glaciers could be growing, new study finds
A new study published in Nature Geoscience has discovered Himalayan glaciers that are not shrinking at all. They could be getting larger.
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Humongous fuzzy dinosaur unearthed in China (+video)
An ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, Yutyrannus huali weighed 3,000 pounds and was covered in a downy fuzz.
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Dressed to kill: A feathered tyrannosaur is discovered in China
A team of paleontologists has dubbed their find Yutyrannus huali – beautiful feathered tyrant. At 1.5 tons, this 'fuzz ball ... with a mouth full of killer teeth' is the largest feathered dinosaur by far.
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Increasing carbon dioxide levels ended the last ice age
Using data from ice cores and underwater sediment, new research shows that carbon dioxide emissions contributed to the temperature change at the end of Earth's last ice age.
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Was Tyrannosaurus rex actually fuzzy? (+video)
The unearthing of a fuzzy ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex in China casts doubt on the image of the king of dinosaurs as a scaly beast.
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Global warming began in oceans 135 years ago, suggests study
A study of temperature recordings from the 1870s suggests that the oceans began warming more than 100 years ago, much earlier than previously believed.
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Fossil discovery could unravel mystery of how humans learned to walk (+video)
The discovery of foot bone fossils from an early hominin may help unlock the mystery of how humans learned to walk upright.
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Past decade's extreme weather is manmade, new study suggests
Extreme rainfall and heatwaves over the past decade have been linked to global warming in a new Nature Climate Change study. The relationship between storms and warming is less clear.
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Opinion On the death of Encyclopaedia Britannica: All authoritarian regimes eventually fall
Let us trumpet the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print edition. We should celebrate the fact that in a Web 2.0, Wikipedia world, information now roams free. It lives and breathes, loosed from cages where it was allowed to reproduce only once a year, edition by edition.
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