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New NASA Mission Will Measure The Mysterious Glow Of Earth’s Plants
Packed alongside supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station on an otherwise routine SpaceX resupply run, something rather special is headed to orbit this week: A refrigerator-sized instrument that’ll measure the glow of Earth’s plant life.
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These Scientists Ground An iPhone To Dust To Figure Out What’s Inside
You probably don’t spend a lot of time pondering what your smartphone is made of. But maybe you should, because the average phone is a dizzyingly complex compendium of metals and minerals sourced from all over the Earth.
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Behind The Hype Of Apple’s Plan To End Mining
There are 118 elements on the periodic table. An iPhone contains about 75 of them.
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America Had A Wet, Hot 2018
On Tuesday, NOAA and NASA released their much-anticipated analyses of global climate trends for 2018. As we expected, the agencies confirmed it was the fourth-warmest year on record for planet Earth. But the reports also highlighted just how striking a year it was for the U.S. specifically, with most of the country feeling the heat…