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Mainland Spain ran a full day without burning coal

The plan is to go fully-renewable by 2050.

More atmospheric CO2 could reduce cognitive ability, especially in children

Students could see a 50% decline in cognitive capacity by 2100 if CO2 emissions don't drop.

Most people think they're doing more for the environment than everyone else -- but that's not how averages work

Ironically, it makes us put in less and less effort.

Australia's heatwave breaks all-time temperature record for the second day straight

Combination of drought, fires and high temperatures create a problematic scenario

E. coli can be modified to eat carbon dioxide

It's a small step for bacteria, and potentially a very large step for mankind.

Oldest fossilized forest discovered under New York

The 386-million-year-old forest marked a massive transition in the planet's history from sparce vegetation to lush tropical forests.

Did a study claim there's no link between eggs and cholesterol? It might be biased

Studies funded by the egg industry downplay negative results

Better diets could save billions in U.S. health care costs

Eating well is good for you and the national budget.

Mathematicians crack Newton's three-body problem

For three and a half centuries, the three-body-problem has given mathematicians headaches. Now, a new study is bringing us one step closer to solving it.

This algorithm lets you delete water from underwater photos

Underwater photography is spectacular enough. But what if we could make it even more amazing?

China's changing diet is increasing air pollution - and leading to more premature deaths

More people are eating meat in China, leading to farmers using more fertilizers.

Scientists devise tiny robot insects that can't be crushed by a flyswatter

The soft robots are propelled by hair-thin artificial muscles.

One in two American adults could be obese by 2030 -- and one in four severely obese

"Prevention is going to be key to better managing this epidemic," the authors explain.

Password meters may actually help make your data less secure by offering 'misleading' advice

'Password1!' isn't a good password.

First human ancestor to walk on two legs made its final stand in Java

A new investigation suggests that Homo erectus survived on Indonedian island long enough to overlap with our own species, Homo sapiens.

LGBTQ+ academics face widespread harassment in astronomy

A staggering 21% of LGBTQPAN women and gender non-conforming participants claimed they were physically harassed in their workplace.

Mars gets auroras almost every day -- it's just that we can't see them

Martian auroras are linked to water loss on the red planet's surface, which is why the connection is quite important to scientists.

Earth's magnetic North Pole is now officially moving towards Siberia

The planet's magnetic north pole is shifting at an alarming rate. Luckily, our magnetic model has received a much needed update.

Australia records its hottest day ever -- while burning from a thousand bushfires

A nationwide average temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius this Tuesday set a new record for the land down under.

The single parrot native to the US extinguished strictly because of humans

The colorful bird got extinct in 1918, surprising many

Cutting down trees and planting new ones is wrecking the soil

Continuously cutting down forests and planting new ones is deplenting the soils of crucial minerals, new analysis shows.

Ancient Dane's life reconstructed from 5,700-year-old chewing gum

The early Neolithic female was a hunter-gather

Frank Force wins Best Illusion of 2019 award with a simple, but effective shape

I know what he's doing, but it still works.

US Congress agrees to fund gun control research for the first time in decades

It's about time American lawmakers treat gun violence as the publich health crisis that it truly is.

Obesity and undernutrition now come together -- over 1 in 3 poor and middle-income countries struggle with both

You can starve on too much food.

Small journals maintain the business of large journals – the scientific semiperiphery

Can the business of large journals benefit from the existence of smaller journals?

People are less likely to catch common cold if they're already infected with influenza

Understanding how these distinct viruses hinder each other could be useful to improve forecasting models that predict respiratory disease outbreaks and strategies for controlling disease spread.

CHEOPS launch postponed due to 'Software Error'

The launch of the ESA’s CHEOPS satellite has been postponed as a result of a software error, reports the University of Bern.

Astronomers map the surface of a pulsar for the first time

A new mapped the surface of a pulsar, and it may cause astronomers to rewrite their textbooks.

Global climate summit ends in failure. But the fight is not over

An alliance of fossil fuel-loving countries (boasting the US, Russia, Australia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia) stood against the world, fighting against real climate action.

Tasty moths try to evade predators -- unappetizing moths don't really bother

Moths that employ chemical defenses aren't in a hurry to avoid predatory bats.

AI is outpacing Moore's Law

AI performance is doubling nearly every 3 months, a new report shows.

In 2019, Brazil cut down twice as much of the Amazon as it did in the previous year

All in all, some 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) of forest were cut down in November.

The Escazú Agreement wants to protect environmental human rights in Latin America -- but not everyone is on board

The agreement could help to protect environmental leaders in Latin America.

There may be a second black hole at the center of our galaxy

Astronomers think that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have a companion -- and that could teach us more about how galaxies form and evolve.

US coalition says “we are still in” at UN climate summit

Coalition of actors from the US rejects Trump's stand on climate change

EPA refuses to ban coyote-killing poison traps

The sodium cyanide bombs are deployed to kill livestock predators, but opponents claim that the traps are inhumane and have many unintended victims — including pets and endangered species. Arguments between farmers and environmentalists are nothing new. Finding the balance between protecting farmers and their work and ensuring environmental sustainability is always a challenging issue. […]

Scientists make plastic self-cleaning surface that repels even the worst superbugs

The material was inspired by the self-cleaning lotus leaf.

Biotech company is sending cannabis to space to see how it mutates

Hemp and coffee cell cultures will grow for 30 days in microgravity.

When trying out creative ideas, go for your second choice, a new study finds

"We're probably all killing a lot of our best ideas early in the creative process without knowing it," says the author.

'Living rocks' show surprising cognitive abilities

Years later, tortoises still remember what they were taught.

Food availability acts as a cap for whales's maximum size

Both baleen and toothed whales grew as large as their food allowed.

DNA reveals lifespan of mammoth and other extinct animals

Researchers in Australia analyzed certain genes associated with longevity to design a 'lifespan clock' for different extinct and living species.

A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was "inevitable," and maybe on other planets, too

The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.

There's a million times more microplastic in the ocean than we thought

We thought microplastics were a big problem... but they're a huge one.

Even a little extra CO2 is triggering big changes in forests

Rising CO2 is altering how forests recycle water.

World's deepest point on land found hidden in Antarctica

A trough beneath Denman Glacier is the deepest continent point in the world, measuring more than 2 miles beneath sea level.

Artwork in Indonesia might be the new 'oldest' hunting scene by modern humans

Indonesia may be the home of the oldest cave paintings of hunting bands found in the world. A new study reports on what appears to be a depiction of human-like figures hunting wild buffalo and pigs at the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was dated to be approximately 43,900-years old. […]

Pollution pods give feeling of smog in diverse cities at COP25

Art installation at UN climate summit recreates air quality of major cities

Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s

On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.