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Four astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space
Four astronauts are back on Earth after an eight-month stay at the International Space Station More »
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Peek inside Georgia’s record-setting sea turtle nesting season
Loggerhead sea turtles have laid a record 4,292 nests on Georgia beaches this year, a significant rebound from 358 nests in 2004 More »
Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died More »
Strawberry farmer hopes steam holds the key to healthy soil and a better crop
California strawberry farmers have applied steam to fields as an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases More »
PVC pipes swept away by Hurricane Helene flooding still dominate cleanup of North Carolina river
Two years after Hurricane Helene, rivers in western North Carolina are still littered with debris More »
Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Scientists Henri B More »
Interpol crackdown on illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking leads to 233 arrests
Interpol has announced a major crackdown on environmental crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to 233 arrests More »
Solar power helps Amazon communities ditch diesel and prepare for El Niño drought
Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators More »
Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics
A Belgian-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved More »
Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for shining light on brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works More »
