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The Brazilian treehopper is the creepiest, raddest insect you will ever see
This particular picture is just a sculpture, but trust: this bug is real.
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Is Your Utility Ready for a Solar Rooftop Revolution?
Within a decade, more than 35 million buildings may be generating their own solar electricity (without subsidies) at prices lower than their utility offers, sufficient to power almost 10% of […]
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The unkillable tree lobster is getting its own animated film
Like many other things that look like aliens -- facehuggers, E.T., James Carville -- the Lord Howe Island stick insect, a.k.a. the tree lobster, is making the leap to film.
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Narwhal-horn smuggling ring busted in Maine
Narwhals, the unicorns of the sea, are super hard to catch. But that didn't stop these guys from selling 150 of their horns.
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Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
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Promised Land, a movie review
Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of getting natural gas out of shale rock far […]
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The bizarre and fascinating history of lead in gasoline
The story of how lead got in gasoline -- and stayed there for decades -- is endlessly fascinating.
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The next space shuttle could be made out of trash
Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center have devised a trash compactor that turns waste into 8-inch radiation-shielding tiles.
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Here’s an airport entirely filled with cars wrecked in Hurricane Sandy
After Hurricane Sandy, Insurance Auto Auctions Corp. found itself with an overload of damaged cars. The company had to store them somewhere.
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The fight over lead: It’s like all pollution fights rolled into one
We could be learning a lot from the fight to clean up lead pollution. But we're not.
