A geoscientist explains what would happen if Earth suddenly stopped spinning

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Illustration of Earth, moon, and sun.

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Can "golden fiber" from swamp reeds replace plastic?

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About 20 years ago, Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has gotten worse. To find a biodegradable replacement, the government turned to jute, a cash crop grown here for centuries.

The best landscape photos of the year

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El Chalten, Patagonia.
El Chalten, Patagonia.

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Inside Zap Energy, the Bill Gates-backed company that wants to bring fusion power to the electrical grid

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The Z-pinch machine, FuZE, at Zap Energy could someday produce fusion reactions.

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Your houseplants were 'forged in the war of nature' to be pretty and poisonous, says an evolutionary biologist

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Dieffenbachia are pretty, popular houseplants that are also poisonous.

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Finnish people may be some of the happiest in the world but they also have several unusual traditions. Here are 5 surprising facts about the world's happiest country.

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Colorado has released 10 gray wolves into the wilderness. The predator was eradicated from the state in the 1940s.

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Colorado has released 10 gray wolves into the wilderness as part of an effort to reintroduce the apex predator to the state.

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Alabama mother with double uterus gives birth to rare twins over 2 days in 'one in a million' pregnancy

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The climate crisis forces Mongolian herders to endure worsening summer droughts and severe winter storms

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A man holds his cap as a sudden dust storm swirls around outside.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope breaks another record, discovering the smallest star-like object astronomers have ever seen

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Star cluster IC 348 is shown here with bright stars and pink and yellow gas.
Central portion of the star cluster IC 348 as seen by JWST.

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