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Chemists have unlocked the secrets of long-lasting Roman concrete
By searching ancient texts and ruins, scientists found a concrete recipe that could make buildings stronger — and help address climate change.
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By searching ancient texts and ruins, scientists found a concrete recipe that could make buildings stronger — and help address climate change.
Learn how you can limit the climate-warming gases associated with what you eat, the products you buy and the energy you use.
Nations are charting how they might ‘zero’ out their releases of climate-warming gases. Success might greatly lower the risks of climate catastrophes.
A new study finds they can leak benzene and other harmful chemicals into homes, sometimes at very high levels.
Switching over to clean, renewable power — and away from fossil fuels — could save trillions of dollars by 2050, a new study finds.
The tiny plastic bits give these germs safe havens. That protection seems to increase as the plastic ages and breaks into ever smaller pieces.
But the same thing is not happening throughout the kingdom. For instance, more than half of vertebrate populations are stable or increasing.
After an intense burn in 2018 in California, big cats in the region crossed roads more often. That put them at higher risk of becoming roadkill.
In the days right after most Americans turn back the clock, vehicle crashes with deer increase by 16 percent, a new study shows.
Imari Walker says her journey as a scientist and science communicator lets her talk about and advocate for her passion.