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Scientists urge storytelling in scientific writing to connect emotionally and spark public action on climate change.

As the extraordinary pace of astronomical discovery carries on, we increasingly see that the stuff of life is ... in stabilizing Earth’s climate. As a professor of climate science at University ...

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She wants to live life to the fullest; he wants to live forever. Sophie and Martin are at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference ...

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Using early Hollywood as a touchstone, the original adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" penned by a professor ...

This is the idea that UV radiation could help life arise — one of the theories that has been suggested to explain life taking root on Earth ... Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K ...

Human activity is reshaping life on Earth in profound and alarming ways ... researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and the University of Zurich present ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks ... Zare and his colleagues published their work in the journal Science Advances. Join our Space Forums to keep talking ...

The origin of life on Earth is one of science’s biggest questions, and previous theories have suggested that lightning may have played a role. While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.