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Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.

The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office, according to court documents filed on Monday in a...

A Half-Ton Spacecraft Lost by the Soviets in 1972 Is Coming Home

A robotic Soviet spacecraft has been adrift in space for 53 years. It will return to Earth on Friday or Saturday.Kosmos-482 launched in March 1972. If all had gone...

Sir David Attenborough Ocean film 'greatest message he's told'

Sir David Attenborough is launching what he says is one of the most important films of his career as he enters his hundredth year.He believes his new, cinema-length film...

5.5 million patients' information exposed by major healthcare data breach

Healthcare seems to be the favorite target of attackers this year. It's been only four months, and we've already seen some of the biggest data breaches in the...

15 years after BP oil spill, marine recovery on Louisiana coast brings hope but not full trust

Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show...

Oldest Ant Ever Found: 113-Million-Year-Old Hell Ant Unearthed In Brazil

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the oldest known ant fossil, dating back 113 million years, in northeastern Brazil. Published in the journal Current Biology, this finding reveals...

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At the American Museum of Natural History, a Look to Outer Space

This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.What if you could stand in...

Video: How Fertilizer Poisoned So Much Farmland

For years, a factory offered farmers its sewage as free fertilizer, and the surrounding land — some of which is still used to grow...

Could taking carbon out of the sea cool down the planet?

Jonah FisherBBC environment correspondentGetty Images'Some impact on environment'There's also the question of what a large quantity of low-carbon water would do to the sea...

Windows 10 security flaws leave millions vulnerable

Windows 11 is the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft, but it has its flaws, so much so that even four years...

Ancient jawbone found in sea belongs to mysterious human ancestors, scientists say

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday.Relatively...