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If we keep subsidizing wind, will the cost of wind energy go down?

By Eric Williams and Eric Hittinger, The Conversation

If history is a guide, policies that promote wind power expansion will lead to lower prices – potentially beating fossil fuels in the US by 2030.

These youth of color are organizing to address climate change

By Jenna Gray

On Thursday morning, hundreds of young people of color received an urgent message: they couldn’t afford not to be leaders in the fight against climate change.

Meet the plastic surgeon who moonlights as an animal doctor

By Jonathan Wosen, STAT

Plastic surgeon Dr. Coleen Stice mostly operates on humans – that is, until the zoo calls for assistance. She has operated on a bald eagle, fixed cleft palates on dogs, and done minor reconstructive surgery on pigs and cats. Her…

Why Death Valley and the Pacific Northwest are so hot right now

By Roni Dengler

Heat waves are burning up the West Coast. Here’s why things are so toasty right now.

This ancient asteroid family reveals clues about the birth of the solar system

By Roni Dengler

An international team has tipped the debate on the origins of the solar system with the discovery of one of the oldest known asteroid families.

Why the first flowers may have looked like magnolias

By Mario Vallejo-Marin, The Conversation

An international team of botanists has achieved the best reconstruction to date of an ancestral flower.

This gene editing milestone raises big ethical questions

By PBS News Hour

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We are running out of effective antibiotics fast

By Miles O'Brien

Each year, superbugs -- viral bacterial infections resistant to common antibiotics -- infect more than two million Americans, killing at least 38,000. As the list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grows, so have the extraordinary efforts to prevent the spread of infection…

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