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For all of Chicago’s global significance, there is still a lack of certainty about the origins of the city’s name.

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02-21-2019

Was Chicago named after a wild onion?

Chicago is a fractious city, full of unresolved contradictions. A heap of concrete and metal,...

Environment top stories

Researchers investigated the Darwinian theory that species located in the tropics and lower elevations interact more with other species.

02-20-2019

Interaction between species is greater towards the tropics, lowlands

A study has found that cold temperature variability is just as important as global warming for projecting the negative impacts of climate change.

02-20-2019

Cold temperature variability: An overlooked effect of climate change

Amazon has launched a new initiative called “Shipment Zero,” with a goal of carbon-neutral shipping for at least half of its products by 2030.

02-20-2019

Amazon aims to make half of shipments carbon-neutral by 2030

Tonight’s supermoon will not be quite as exciting as a lunar eclipse Blood Moon, but it will be fuller and brighter.

02-19-2019

Another supermoon arrives tonight and here’s the best way to see it

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CO2 removal technologies and techniques are becoming more necessary to implement via climate policy due to the worldwide failure to reduce global emissions.

02-19-2019

Why CO2 removal technologies are becoming more necessary

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Bioluminescence is often used as a form of communication and is very common in the ocean, even if it's not always so noticeable.

02-19-2019 Environment

Bioluminescent Tide: What makes the ocean glow

The first time I saw bioluminescence in a fish, it...

A new study shows that cultured meat would not mitigate all of the negative impacts of beef production without a widespread shift to carbon-free energy.

02-19-2019 Science

Cultured meat may not be the best substitute for conventional beef

Experts have been looking into ways to improve beef production...

A recent expedition has produced the first 3D map of the world’s largest underwater sinkhole, the Great Blue Hole.

02-19-2019 Environment

Researchers reveal what they found inside Belize’s Great Blue Hole

A recent expedition has produced the first 3D map of...

More than half of the carbon stored in the world’s forests is located in regions where the trees are relatively young.

02-18-2019 Environment

Young forests are storing much more carbon than previously realized

While the oceans are the largest carbon sink on the...

Climate change will alter the atmospheric energy that fuels weather in the summer, according to a new study from MIT.

02-18-2019 Environment

Climate change will make summer weather more severe and stagnant

Climate change will alter the atmospheric energy that fuels weather...

Science top stories

02-19-2019 Environment

Another supermoon arrives tonight and here’s the best way to see it

2019 is shaping up to be a year filled with...

China is looking to build the first ever solar power station in space and has announced plans to send a one-megawatt solar facility into orbit by 2030.

02-19-2019 Science

China announces plans to build a solar power station in space

China is looking to build the first ever solar power...

02-19-2019 Environment

Why CO2 removal technologies are becoming more necessary

According to a new statement released by the European Academies'...

A new study led by the University College London pinpoints the exact locations of two quarries in Wales where the “bluestones” of Stonehenge originated.

02-19-2019 Science

Scientists pinpoint where the Stonehenge bluestones originated

A new study led by the University College London pinpoints...

02-19-2019 Science

Cultured meat may not be the best substitute for conventional beef

Experts have been looking into ways to improve beef production...

02-19-2019 Environment

Researchers reveal what they found inside Belize’s Great Blue Hole

A recent expedition has produced the first 3D map of...

The entire genome of the great white shark has been decoded in an important step in conserving the declining species.

02-18-2019 Animals

Decoding the great white shark genome reveals key adaptations

The entire genome of the great white shark has been...

Some of the hunter-gatherer populations of East Africa are more closely related to each other than their neighboring populations.

02-18-2019 Lifestyle

East Africa’s hunter-gatherers share a common ancestry

Through a genomic study of 50 African populations, researchers from...

Animals top stories

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02-20-2019

Interaction between species is greater towards the tropics, lowlands

Researchers from the University of British Columbia conducted one of the largest field experiments to...

Researchers observed golden snub-nosed monkey infants being nursed by a monkey other than its mother during a five-year field study.

02-20-2019 Animals

Golden snub-nosed monkeys nurse the young of other females

Researchers observed golden snub-nosed monkey infants being nursed by a...

02-20-2019 Environment

Cold temperature variability: An overlooked effect of climate change

A study led by Binghamton University has found that cold...

A new study from the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan has found that sharks slow down dramatically when they are hungry and ready to pounce on their prey.

02-19-2019 Animals

Slow-moving sharks are preparing to strike, just like in the movies

A new study from the National Institute of Polar Research...

02-19-2019 Environment

Bioluminescent Tide: What makes the ocean glow

The first time I saw bioluminescence in a fish, it...

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Magic mushrooms are nearing their day in court for Denver after major grassroots movement to legalize the psychedelic.

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Medicinal benefits of magic mushrooms emphasized ahead of Denver vote

Magic mushrooms are nearing their day in court for Denver, Colorado. A major grassroots movement to legalize the psychedelic has successfully put decriminalization on the ballot and residents will cast …