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Extreme weather is already driving up food prices, and researchers say it’s only going to get worse. Author Michael Grunwald ...
Those are just a couple of the takeaways from Miami writer Michael Grunwald’s deep dive into how humanity’s insatiable ...
Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...
Rationing, coupons and making do became part of everyday life with things like tripe, makeshift butter and fidget pie on the menu. Cookbooks from this period are all about making food go further and ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from (UCL) and the University of Cambridge has shown that ...
NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.
Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...
Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...
Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...