Earth
Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa
East Africa became colder and drier around 75,000 years ago, just when modern humans were apparently migrating out of Africa
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Earth
Gel-like ice is the lightest form of water ever discovered
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Environment
We may finally understand why tropical plants have huge leaves
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Earth
Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet
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Earth
Living with climate change: What’s the worst that can happen?
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Space
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
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Physics
Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time
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Earth
Big cities warm up during the week as commuters flock in
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Physics
Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever
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Earth
Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space
Physicists have achieved record temperature reductions of more than 40 °C using radiative cooling, which beams heat through the atmosphere
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Physics
Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence?
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Life
6000 people cram into one pool in China to beat the heat
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Scorchio! Earth’s surface is the hottest it has been in history
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Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD
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