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At his confirmation hearing to become the EPA's permanent chief on Wednesday, the former coal lobbyist faced staunch criticism-even after Capitol Police removed...
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Saturn's rings are 'very young'
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Here’s the weather forecast during Sunday’s ‘super moon’ lunar eclipse over Carolinas
Comprehensively dubbed the Super Blood Wolf Moon , Sunday's eclipse is a rare trifecta of awesome astronomical phenomenon and not, as some might think, the tit...
Hitachi halts work on Anglesey nuclear project
Agneta Rising, director general of World Nuclear Association said: "We urge the United Kingdom government to bring forward fresh proposals for a stable financin...
Plant shoots grow on far side of Moon
Images published on Twitter show cotton shoots growing in an airtight container aboard the lander, having been kept dormant during a 20-day trip from Earth to...
Compass needles point to a mystery shift in magnetic North Pole
The North Magnetic Pole itself is not a permanent place, and actually shifts with regularity, generally moving in a northwestern path across the Arctic. By 2018...
Get ready for the "super blood wolf moon" … or not
A total lunar eclipse will occur on Sunday evening after the end of the AFC Championship Game between the Chiefs and Patriots. Sadly most of New Zealand will mi...
Cotton Seed Sprouts In China's Lunar Lander
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£21bn 'holy grail' particle collider splits the scientific community
While the world's largest, most powerful particle collider remains closed for spring cleaning , scientists are turning their attention to a new toy. Named th...
Dragon Back on Earth as Station Crew Revs Up Station Science
This mission was the first SpaceX splashdown and recovery process to take place at night, according to a statement NASA posted during the capsule's 6-hour j...
Grounds for concern: 60% of wild coffees 'face extinction'
Coffee lovers, here's one more reason to savor that morning cup o' joe. In a study published in Science Advances , researchers assessed the species against t...
Sunday lunar eclipse planned during Chiefs game
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China Says It Has Grown the First Plants on the Moon
The China National Space Agency's Chang'e 4 lander is exploring the mysterious side of our lunar neighbor that faces away from Earth. Researchers used bio...
SpaceX Launches Final Batch of Iridium Next Satellites
The eighth and final launch of the Dollars 3 billion Iridium NEXT project completed delivery of 75 new satellites to orbit for the McLean, Virginia, company. ...
CERN plans $A14 billion particle collider
The team at CERN is looking to the future with a much, much larger collider that is called the Futur Circular Collider (FCC) and has published the Conceptual ...
China sprouts the first plants on the moon
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Global warming is fueling stronger ocean waves
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Foes of genetically modified foods know less than they think, study finds
Genetically modified foods are produced from genetically engineered organisms. The researchers found that the participants scored lowest on the test portion o...
‘Super wolf blood moon’: How to see this weekend’s total lunar eclipse
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Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s
Richard Alley, a Pennsylvania State University scientist not involved in Rignot's study, called it "really good science". That means the region is losing six ...
Air pollution: New plan to tackle it
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China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing
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Arachnophobe's nightmare: 'Floating' spiders fill sky in Brazil
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DNA pioneer James Watson loses honours over race remarks
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SpaceX to lay off 10% of workers due to 'difficult challenges'
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Wet wipes to receive 'fine to flush' kitemark
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