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Western North Carolina six months after Hurricane Helene is storm-scarred and still recovering. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

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I study local government and Hurricane Helene forced me from my home − here’s how rural towns and counties in North Carolina and beyond...

Staff Writer - April 22, 2025

When engineers design things, they use models to predict how the things will work in the natural world. But all models have limitations. MTStock Studio/E+ via Getty Images

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All models are wrong − a computational modeling expert explains how engineers make them useful

There’s a sizable group of Americans who agree with the phrase ‘I think society should be burned to the ground.’ Anton Petrus-Moment/Getty Images

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A need for chaos powers some Americans’ support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

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How and where is nuclear waste stored in the US?

Amazon partnered with Dominion Energy to build solar farms in Virginia to power its cloud-computing service. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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Companies will still face pressure to manage for climate change, even as government rolls back US climate policy

The Trump administration has been cutting EPA science jobs and advisory board members. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

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EPA must use the best available science − by law −...

Staff Writer - April 8, 2025

Several U.S. climate regulations aim to reduce burning of fossil fuels, a driver of climate change. Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies...

Staff Writer - March 20, 2025

Imja Lake, a glacial lake in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, began as meltwater ponds in 1962 and now contains 90 million cubic meters of water. Its water level was lowered to protect downstream communities. Alton Byers

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As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for...

Staff Writer - March 19, 2025

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP

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Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft

Staff Writer - March 16, 2025

Collard greens − a staple of diets across the African diaspora. Bronwen Powell/Abderrahim Ouarghidi, CC BY

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How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter...

Staff Writer - March 13, 2025

A dragline excavator mines rare earth materials in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2025. Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images

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US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them...

Staff Writer - March 12, 2025

Lightning strikes the Mediterranean Sea. Matko Begovic/PIXSELL via Xinhua, via Getty Images

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The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped

Staff Writer - March 12, 2025

The European Space Agency’s astronaut cohort includes a parastronaut, as part of a feasability project. AP Photo/Francois Mori

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Mission possible − parastronaut programs can make space travel more inclusive...

Staff Writer - March 11, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan

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Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...

Staff Writer - April 1, 2025

Ben Marwick, University of Washington New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....

The 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake near San Francisco in 1989 caused about $6.8 billion in damage and 63 deaths. J.K. Nakata/U.S. Geological Survey

US earthquake safety relies on federal employees’ expertise

April 1, 2025

Black holes, like the one in this illustration, can spray powerful jets. S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF), CC BY-SA

Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where −...

March 31, 2025

After gathering data on the captured anole, the team releases it back to the wild. Neil Losin/Day's Edge Prods.

Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking...

March 25, 2025

Experts predict that egg prices will keep climbing in 2025. Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Egg prices soar as outdated supply chains crack under pressure

March 24, 2025