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T. rex Skeleton Heads to New York Auction With $30m Price Tag
A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex is expected to fetch record money at a New York sale, reviving a debate over private ownership of major dinosaur fossils.
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Mei Lin
Mei translates the frontier — labs, ice cores, telescopes — into plain language without losing the wonder. A former research biologist, she covers the science that will define the next century and the climate story underneath all of it.
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Western Europe's Hottest June on Record Sharpens Climate Alarm
Copernicus data confirm western Europe just lived through its warmest June ever measured, part of a second-warmest June globally, as scientists tie the heat and a faltering Indian monsoon to a warming climate.
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Western Europe Records Its Hottest June as Heatwaves Intensify
Copernicus data show western Europe just endured its warmest June on record, part of a second-warmest June globally, as scientists point to a warming climate driving harsher and more frequent heat events.
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North Sea Gas Field's Owner Says Development Will Not Materially Affect Climate
A revised environmental assessment for the Jackdaw gas field argues its emissions impact is negligible, after regulators found an earlier submission fell short on climate scrutiny.
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As Climate Risks Mount, Agencies Shift Focus From Warnings to Adaptation
UN and European bodies are increasingly framing climate change as a present-tense risk-management problem, spanning child welfare, emissions cuts and regional adaptation planning.
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Climate Agencies Converge on a Shared Warning: Adaptation Can No Longer Wait
From Brussels to UNICEF's global offices, institutions tracking climate risk are aligning around one message: mitigation alone is not enough, and the world's most vulnerable need protection now.
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When Insurers Retreat, the Coast Empties Quietly
It is not the storms that are emptying vulnerable coastlines. It is the withdrawal of insurance — a slow, bureaucratic force that depopulates without a single headline.
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Direct Air Capture Finally Reaches Industrial Scale
The first plants pulling carbon dioxide from the open air at meaningful scale have come online. The milestone is real — and so is the punishing economics beneath it.
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The Gut-Brain Axis Moves From Fringe to Frontier
The idea that the bacteria in your gut shape your mood and mind was once dismissed as wishful thinking. It is now one of the most serious frontiers in biology.
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A Distant World Shows the Clearest Sign Yet of Liquid Water
Spectra from a planet a hundred light-years away reveal a chemical fingerprint that, on Earth, only oceans and life produce. Scientists are excited — and very, very careful.
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Grid-Scale Storage Quietly Passes a Milestone Nobody Expected So Soon
For the first time, batteries supplied more evening electricity than gas peaker plants across an entire major grid. The transition's hardest problem is starting to look solvable.
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Inside the Long Hunt for a Room-Temperature Superconductor
A material that carries electricity without loss at ordinary temperatures would remake energy, computing, and transport. The question is how close the long hunt really is.
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Gene-Editing Trial Reports Lasting Results Three Years On
Patients treated for an inherited blood disorder remain symptom-free years later, offering the strongest evidence yet that a single edit can be a lasting cure.