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Climate

Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP

As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller groups are banding together to find ways to fight climate change.

Planetary Science

Listen to the crackle of Martian ‘mini-lightning’

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical discharges generated by dusty gusts.

Anthropology

A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.