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When miners extract valuable minerals from the Earth, they leave behind crushed rock and dirt called mine tailings. Mine tailings contain toxic metals like lead, zinc, and cadmium that damage living organisms. After mining projects end, mine tailings are often left behind where they can disrupt plant growth and other parts of the natural ecosystem.

Plants need s...

This Halloween, you can skip the ghostly sheet. Every human already carries a ghost, several of them, in fact, stitched into the long strands of DNA we inherited from our parents. It was passed down from long-dead populations of our ancestors who vanished so completely that no one has ever found their bones. 

The ancestors of modern humans, known as hominins, in...

In the summer of 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Chile found the third deep-space object known to pass through our solar system. Since it was the third documented interstellar object and was discovered by the ATLAS system, scientists des...

Drug-resistant infections are becoming one of the largest health threats globally. A United Nations advisory committee projects that these infections will push 24 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, and kill up to 10 million people each year by 2050. A bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes about 1 in 10 hospital-acquired infections. It strikes hardest...

In hot weather, trees “sweat” to cool down by releasing water from their leaves or needles and then replacing it with water from the soil. But during long periods of high temperatures, trees may release more water than they can replace. To strengthen forests against heat stress and other environmental hazards,