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Arctic sea ice was supposed to peak in March — instead, it dropped to levels never seen in 45 years of records

Every March, Arctic sea ice completes its winter expansion and reaches its annual peak before the spring melt begins. This ...
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A region deep inside Earth keeps slowly deforming until scientists detected ‘deep earthquakes’ 75 miles below the surface

A team of researchers have been studying how deep inside the Earth, underground earthquakes are reshaping the very planet we ...
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The Sun is sending a powerful solar wind toward Earth, and a small satellite is set to investigate the invisible shield protecting us

The European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences is planning to launch a new satellite to study solar wind from ...
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A solar plant seven times the size of Manhattan in Tibet is reshaping the local microclimate and even ‘growing’ solar sheeps

Yet another nation has turned to the potential of solar power. Tibet has found that life is thriving in and around the ...
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Experts have discovered hidden ‘switches’ in our DNA that may accelerate evolution and could explain what makes humans unique

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a hidden 'switch' in our DNA that rapidly accelerate ...
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A wind farm built to generate electricity began sending lightning-like discharges into the sky and triggering unusual storms

A recent study has detailed the latest issue for wind farms around the world. They have found that wind farms can create ...
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Authorities built a hydroelectric dam to stop flooding until they realized it was releasing millions of liters of water every second

A massive hydroelectric dam in South America was supposed to help prevent flooding in the region, but an increase in water ...
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A 2,000-kilometer dust front swept from Algeria to the Canary Islands — and satellites captured every stage

Within hours, that plume had grown into a dust front roughly 2,000 kilometers long — stretching from Algeria all the way to ...
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For 150 years, people believed a river in Utah was flowing uphill until scientists uncovered the real explanation

The Green River in Utah's Uinta Mountain range has been flowing uphill for 150 years and nobody knew why until a study got to ...
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While we were all looking at the Moon, the Sun received an unexpected visitor and proceeded to blow it to pieces after vaporizing it

While the vast majority of the world were staring at the Moon during the Artemis II mission, NASA filmed our Sun receiving an ...
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Scientists tracked Greenland’s ice year after year until they realized it is losing an area the size of Manhattan annually

A recent study has found yet another impact of climate on the global stage. Greenland's massive ice sheet is melting more and ...
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Scientists lowered a camera into an active volcano beneath the Pacific until they captured, for the first time, how the Earth releases its energy

Scientists have captured how the Earth releases its energy. The number of mysteries regarding the Earth is getting significantly less in recent years as technology advances. And when researchers ...