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The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in ...

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For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the ...

Greenwashing scandals—the practice of misleading the public about what action a company or organization is taking to protect ...

As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet's ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

I like to eat quintessential fish fingers as a crusty bread sandwich, with lemon juice, mayonnaise and salad. And I'm not the ...

Polar sea ice is ever-changing. It shrinks, expands, moves, breaks apart, reforms in response to changing seasons, and rapid ...

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The wealth of data hosted in natural history collections can contribute to finding a response to global challenges ranging ...