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News Articles: Science

An earlier ruling had ordered energy company Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. A Shell logo is displayed at a gas station in London in March 2022.

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  • Climate

Dutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell

The original 2021 ruling ordered Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. The appeals court said there is "insufficient consensus" on a specific reduction percentage.

November 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo from November 2017, a rhesus macaques monkey observes kayakers as they navigate along the Silver River in Silver Springs, Fla.

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  • National

25 of 43 monkeys have been recovered after escaping a lab in South Carolina last week

A research facility in Yemassee, S.C., has recovered 25 of the 43 monkeys that escaped from the laboratory last week after a caretaker accidentally left the door to their enclosure unsecured.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Scientists have found one type of neuron is affected early in Alzheimer's.

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  • Science

Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent

A study of cells from 84 brains finds that Alzheimer's has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially vulnerable.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
This 2014 image provided by NASA shows a Taurid fireball recorded at the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Tullahoma, Tenn.

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  • National

Taurid meteor shower to light up the night sky. Here's how you can see it

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
The logo for the COP29 climate change conference is painted on a road in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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  • Climate

Trump's reelection casts a shadow over the start of global climate negotiations

Trump's return to the White House raises questions about whether the country will continue working on global climate initiatives.



November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley,
  • Jeff Brady,
  • and 3 more
TJ, 35, and Nicole, 41, came to Chimp Haven from the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico 2018. Another group is expected to arrive from New Mexico in the coming months.

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  • Science

Frail chimps headed from New Mexico to Louisiana sanctuary

About two dozen chimpanzees deemed too feeble to be moved a few years ago will be going to Chimp Haven after all. The NIH said originally they'd be kept in New Mexico for their own safety.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Two complete skeletons of the dinosaur <em>Psittacosaurus</em> from one of the sites analyzed by the research team. Some scientists say these fossils show evidence of preservation due to their burrows collapsing.

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  • Science

Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

November 09, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together, are seen housed at the British Museum in London in 2013.

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  • Research News

New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

November 09, 2024
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
File photo of a loggerhead sea turtle nesting at dawn on Ossabaw Island, Georgia.

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  • Animals

Georgia closes out a slow sea turtle nesting season, but long-term success of species remains bright

Slow seasons, including this year's, are much higher than they were in decades past.

November 08, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne

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  • Book Reviews

Need a break from politics? Marvel at the 'Vanishing Treasures' of the natural world

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading for anyone whose wonder could use a jumpstart.

November 07, 2024
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By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
Supporters watch returns at a campaign election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at the Palm Beach Convention Center.

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  • USPS

Trump’s victory promises to shake up U.S. energy and climate policy, analysts and activists say

Despite Donald Trump’s focus on fossil fuels, his return to the White House won’t derail clean energy, analysts and activists say.

November 06, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley
The baby black-footed ferrets at three weeks old, born to a mother cloned from genetic material collected in 1988.

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  • Animals

Baby black-footed ferrets first to be born to a cloned mom

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Baby Haggis, a pygmy hippo, was born to parents Otto and Gloria at Edinburgh Zoo on Oct. 30.

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  • Animals

Baby Haggis is the new Moo Deng: A pygmy hippo is born in Edinburgh

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30. The newborn, female calf is "doing well," according to zoo staff.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Scientists used a gumball machine filled with toys to test how toddlers learned when they thought something was impossible or just improbable.

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  • Science

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Green eggs and ham? Even toddlers know when an event appears to be impossible, not just improbable.

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump at Macomb Community College on Nov. 1 in Warren, Mich. Kennedy has called for an end to fluoride in the water supply, a practice that saves billions each year in dental care.

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  • Health

No more fluoride in the water? RFK Jr. wants that and Trump says it 'sounds OK'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about fluoride in the drinking water are linked to Cold War conspiracy theories about the substance.

November 04, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
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