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Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. An international subcommitte of geologists recently voted to reject a proposal to make the Anthropocene an official new geological epoch, defined by ...

It seems that we can’t help ourselves. Humans see patterns everywhere we look. We use patterns to make sense of the world—picture the eloquent double helix of a DNA strand; but also to make nonsense ...

They have developed oncom-inspired foods such as a fermented patty made from oat milk waste and a cheese-like delicacy made ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have made near-transparent solar cells that are efficient enough to ...

The spread of the deadly white-nose syndrome, which has decimated U.S. bat populations in the Northeast and Midwest, appears ...