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Earth

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment

Insight

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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cloud trails

Earth

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

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light pillars

Earth

Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

Regulars

Mars

Space

Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Features

Hot springs, Yellowstone National Park

Life

Ancient microbes caused Earth’s first ever global warming

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Space

We may know why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is red instead of white

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A layer of haze keeps Pluto’s atmosphere extremely cold

Space

A layer of haze keeps Pluto’s atmosphere extremely cold

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Orange coral on a reef

Earth

Dimming the sun could save corals from bleaching and hurricanes

Climate change will harm corals by overheating them and unleashing more violent hurricanes, but cooling the planet by geoengineering could reverse those effects

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Space

Lunar volcanoes and lava lakes gave the early moon an atmosphere

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Earth

A few cold drops falling through a cloud could create a downpour

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Earth

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

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Space

Jupiter’s powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth’s

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