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Serious water contaminants such as nitrate may not have any detectable taste or odor. Willie B. Thomas/Digital Vision via Getty Images

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Millions of people across the US use well water, but very few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe

Staff Writer - October 12, 2024

Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA

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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

The linear accelerator at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, where researchers study rare isotopes of elements. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

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Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties

The first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan. Matthew Komatsu/Wikimedia Commons

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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone

Running a dairy farm isn’t easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

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America’s dairy farms are disappearing, down 95% since the 1970s − milk price rules are one reason why

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Bees declared extinct 30 years ago take to UK skies again...

Staff Writer - October 14, 2014

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Beef or fish, Madam? Soon you might not have the choice

Staff Writer - October 14, 2014

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Heat accumulating deep in the Atlantic has put global warming on...

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Tantalising tentacles: octopus could be the next big thing in aquaculture

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Five ways to stop the world’s wildlife vanishing

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Scientists at work: capturing beautiful millipedes in Ohio

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Water and air are all you need to make one of...

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Who you calling an elephant? Animals have weight issues too

Staff Writer - October 11, 2014

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Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA

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Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...

Staff Writer - September 15, 2024

Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope

In Colorado, many people run, bike and climb in mountain lion habitat. DEA/ C. Dani I. Jeske/De Agostini via Getty Images

Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions as attitudes...

September 14, 2024

Sunflowers use tiny movements to follow the Sun’s path throughout the day. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...

September 13, 2024

A white-shouldered bumblebee, Bombus appositus visits the flowers of a goldenbanner. Julian Resasco, CC BY-ND

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...

September 10, 2024

The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India’s largest hydropower dams. Nayan J. Nath, CC BY

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...

September 4, 2024