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whales and dolphins

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Earth

Will carbon capture clean up tar sands?

For the first time a carbon capture and storage plant will store some of the carbon dioxide produced by refining dirty oil from tar sands

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Environment

Mutiny at the South Pole?

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Physics

The wondrous life of the Higgs boson

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Making science fiction a reality

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Did Scott's own South Pole team seal his fate?

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Did Scott's own South Pole team seal his fate?

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Obama's 2025 car fuel efficiency goals are already in reach

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Obama's 2025 car fuel efficiency goals are already in reach

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Fracking could be combined with carbon capture plans

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Fracking could be combined with carbon capture plans

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Eating less fails to extend monkey lives

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Eating less fails to extend monkey lives

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Waste water harnessed to make electricity and plastics

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Waste water harnessed to make electricity and plastics

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Space

Satellite time capsule for life on Earth

Life on Earth is complex and contradictory. Artist Trevor Paglen's new project The Last Pictures sends into orbit a time capsule of phographs capturing this

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Earth

US energy independence by 2020 is a pipe dream

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Life

Retracing the stardust trail

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Humans

Babies without sex or pregnancy?

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Life

Gibbons on helium sing like sopranos

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