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Aviation expert: "I am embarrassed" that Trump blamed DEI for D.C. air disaster

Aviation expert:

It may take weeks to figure out what went wrong, experts tell Salon. But politics plays no role in investigation

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Matthew Rozsa

Bats harbor tons of deadly viruses but don't get sick. Scientists may have just discovered why

Bats harbor tons of deadly viruses but don't get sick. Scientists may have just discovered why

Bats have some of the strongest immune systems in the world. Learning how they work could prevent pandemics

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Salon

Matthew Rozsa

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

The findings support theories that our evolution occurred thanks to space rocks colliding with our planet

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Matthew Rozsa

Is DeepSeek really better for the environment than ChatGPT and Gemini?

Is DeepSeek really better for the environment than ChatGPT and Gemini?

Some are touting the Chinese app as the solution to AI's extreme drain on the energy grid. Is it accurate?

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Matthew Rozsa

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone

"She’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning.”

29.01.2025 10

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Matthew Rozsa

Chuck Schumer challenges Trump to declassify UFO documents. Experts say it's a good move

Chuck Schumer challenges Trump to declassify UFO documents. Experts say it's a good move

Trump has ordered declassifying of documents regarding the JFK assassination and more. Schumer says do UFOs next

25.01.2025 20

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Matthew Rozsa

NASA doubles down on Moon-shot goals in Artemis mission, awarding $24 million to space contractors

NASA doubles down on Moon-shot goals in Artemis mission, awarding $24 million to space contractors

One of the companies to receive a contract is Jeff Bezos' aerospace corporation Blue Origin

24.01.2025 9

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Matthew Rozsa

An ancient volcano blotted out the sun, killing crops. People likely reacted by making "sun stones"

An ancient volcano blotted out the sun, killing crops. People likely reacted by making

Buried in ditches, the Neolithic carvings may have been a sacrifice to stop volcanic climate change

23.01.2025 3

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Matthew Rozsa

Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” Experts say it's a "farce"

Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” Experts say it's a

The U.S. is pumping record levels of oil while Trump ignores the real crisis: climate change

22.01.2025 10

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Matthew Rozsa

Walruses are threatened by climate change. The internet is trying to help save them

Walruses are threatened by climate change. The internet is trying to help save them

More than 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses

21.01.2025 5

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Matthew Rozsa

Contagious peeing discovered in chimpanzees

Contagious peeing discovered in chimpanzees

A new study reports that primates will synchronize urination with implications for the evolution of social cohesion

21.01.2025 7

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Matthew Rozsa

Astronomers solve mystery of "little red dots" spotted by James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomers solve mystery of

A new study on cosmic objects from early in the history of the universe were thought to be massive galaxies

19.01.2025 20

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Matthew Rozsa

Climate change is already changing how we eat. It could get much worse

Climate change is already changing how we eat. It could get much worse

Global heating is lowering crop yields while making food like rice and wheat less nutritious

16.01.2025 7

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Matthew Rozsa

Major oil ports are threatened by rising sea levels

Major oil ports are threatened by rising sea levels

Oil ports on coasts in places like the United States, China and Saudi Arabia will be threatened by sea levels

16.01.2025 5

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Matthew Rozsa

Hottest year on record also marks a major failure to achieve international climate goals

Hottest year on record also marks a major failure to achieve international climate goals

"1.5 is dead" protesters wrote on Darwin's grave this week, referring to the excess heating we've unleashed

14.01.2025 20

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Matthew Rozsa

Space junk cleanup should adopt same strategy as ocean conservation, experts propose

Space junk cleanup should adopt same strategy as ocean conservation, experts propose

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration

11.01.2025 9

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Matthew Rozsa

Los Angeles wildfires have become perfect fuel for Trump and climate denial

Los Angeles wildfires have become perfect fuel for Trump and climate denial

Misinformation is spreading rapidly as experts say climate change is the likely accelerant for California's crisis

11.01.2025 10

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Matthew Rozsa

We Could Use a Man Like Grover Cleveland Again

10.01.2025 20

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The flames from wildfires aren’t always the most dangerous part

Climate change is making wildfires more common and more severe. The pollution is killing us

10.01.2025 5

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Matthew Rozsa

Wall Street bails on climate change coalition after Republican pressure

The financial sector appears to be getting cold feet about efforts to curb the effects of climate change. Five of the six largest banks in the...

07.01.2025 6

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Matthew Rozsa

Why freezing cold worlds could be our best bet for alien life in the solar system

The universe is full of icy worlds that scientists suspect could serve as homes for alien life. These celestial bodies are so cold that humans...

04.01.2025 2

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Matthew Rozsa

Scientists debate fleeing America because of Trump — or risk their research being censored

It was not easy for Dr. Kevin Trenberth to leave the United States. An esteemed climate scientist who has published more than 600 articles on...

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Microplastics linked to organ lesions while scientists may have found how to clean them from nature

Plastic pollution is a scourge on Earth because it doesn’t naturally degrade for decades or even centuries. When many plastics break down, they...

02.01.2025 10

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Matthew Rozsa

Humans think slower than expected, study finds

Human brains are not computers, in spite of how often such a comparison is made, but a recent study in the journal Neuron reveals our gray matter...

30.12.2024 3

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Matthew Rozsa

Jimmy Carter was ahead of the curve

Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other American president, passing away on Sunday at the age of 100. Given that he devoted much of that life to...

30.12.2024 4

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Matthew Rozsa

Is IQ overrated? Why some psychologists say it's better to measure intelligence differently

Seemingly no one wants a low IQ. People with self-reported low intelligence quotients describe struggling with self-esteem issues and romantic...

28.12.2024 3

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Matthew Rozsa

NASA spacecraft touches Sun’s atmosphere, breaking record

The concept of touching the Sun can be traced back to the ancient Greek myth of Icarus, but scientists at NASA have turned that idea into a...

25.12.2024 10

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Matthew Rozsa

Toxic “forever chemicals” could be entering your body from smart watch bands, study finds

Most people who own a smart watch or fitness watch use a band made of synthetic rubber to hold the device on their wrist. Although the bands are...

24.12.2024 10

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Matthew Rozsa

NASA’s Webb telescope seemingly confirms controversial theory on planet formation

Back when the stars in our universe were initially being formed, they created rotating disks of dust and gas known as protoplanetary disks. These...

21.12.2024 6

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Matthew Rozsa

“An exclamation point on global warming”: Climate scientists warn 2024 was marked by broken records

The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest in recorded history, as humanity has officially exceeded the 1.5º C threshold established by the 2015...

19.12.2024 4

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Matthew Rozsa

Facing more delays, NASA astronauts to remain in space until at least March 2025

A long trip to space is about to get even longer. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally supposed to spend only about a...

18.12.2024 6

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Matthew Rozsa

NASA detects more dark comets, providing more clues to how planets form

There’s a lot of stuff in space that we know is there but we can’t see very well or at all. Some of this stuff is known as mysterious dark matter,...

18.12.2024 20

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Matthew Rozsa

Memory problems? Here’s why poor sleep may be the cause — and how to fix it

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during...

18.12.2024 4

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Matthew Rozsa

Death seems “kind of arbitrary”: Scientists want to upload the brain so we can live forever

Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to...

16.12.2024 10

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Matthew Rozsa

RFK Jr.’s lawyer petitions the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine

Aaron Siri, the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services —...

13.12.2024 4

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Matthew Rozsa

Americans spend more years sick than the rest of the world, study finds — and women have it worse

Americans spend more time on average living with diseases compared to people in other countries, according to a recent study from the American...

12.12.2024 10

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Matthew Rozsa

As Trump escalates war on facts, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed”

On Nov. 14, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) — the Republican chair for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and a longtime climate science...

12.12.2024 4

Salon

Matthew Rozsa

European satellites launched to create an artificial eclipse

A pair of satellites astronomers hope can create an artificial eclipse were launched from a site in India last week. Beginning in 2025, each...

10.12.2024 6

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Matthew Rozsa

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average...

06.12.2024 3

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Matthew Rozsa

North Carolina town sues Duke Energy over climate change

The residents of a small North Carolina town are suing Duke Energy, one of the largest utilities companies in the world, for its role in...

06.12.2024 7

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Matthew Rozsa

A fisherwoman took on Big Plastic and won. Here's her advice on defending the environment from Trump

Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became a top science adviser to Donald Trump — a once-and-future president who openly denies environmental science —...

05.12.2024 4

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Matthew Rozsa

Volcanoes on Venus reveal the planet probably never had an ocean, dashing hopes for ancient life

Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of...

05.12.2024 7

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Matthew Rozsa

“Moral failure:” Plastic treaty talks collapse, posing a major setback in fight against pollution

Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little escaping the problem....

03.12.2024 3

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Matthew Rozsa

“Fossil fascism”: How some on the right use climate change as an excuse to demonize migrants

Climate change denial is often seen as a mainstay of the political right, as leaders like President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike...

02.12.2024 5

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Matthew Rozsa

Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6...

01.12.2024 30

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Matthew Rozsa

How climate change became a pretext for fascism

2024 was an ominous year for the future of Earth. Climate scientists anticipate that it will be the first year in which the average planetary...

30.11.2024 20

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Matthew Rozsa

170 arrested as climate activists in Australia block one of the world’s largest coal ports

Australian police arrested 170 climate change activists in the state of New South Wales during a protest from Friday through Sunday. Representing...

26.11.2024 7

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Matthew Rozsa

Laser-based lidar tech is rewriting history — if climate change doesn't erase it first

Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during the Medieval era. Nestled in the Tien...

24.11.2024 10

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Matthew Rozsa

Bacteria found on asteroid was actually Earthly contamination, scientists report

When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and laypeople alike held...

24.11.2024 20

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Matthew Rozsa

More people are drinking toxic “forever chemicals” than ever, EPA report finds

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency released newly-acquired data showing that over 143 million Americans are exposed to so-called “...

22.11.2024 2

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Matthew Rozsa