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Researchers are hoping you’ll cool down with this new smart fabric instead of air conditioning

Ocean warming called 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation'

Obama visits Laos, pledges money to rid country of Vietnam-era bombs

Giant pandas are no longer endangered in China

Some US national parks are feeling pressure from developers

What a solar eclipse and laser physics could teach us about malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Obama seeks to cement climate legacy with China at G-20 before the election

Environmentalists herald the beginnings of a race to protect the world's oceans

A muralist is painting weeds to represent the margins of society

New York to London in 3 hours? More start-ups are looking at supersonic travel.

The EU orders Apple to pay a record $14.5 billion in taxes

China is looking to the US as it builds its first national park system

We’re finding more links between immune responses and our ‘body clocks’

Why private companies are racing to build small rockets

This strangely orbiting space object could have ties to Planet Nine

Medical marijuana just became more accessible to US scientists

Our closest galactic neighbor may also have a habitable planet

Once-impassable Northwest Passage sees its largest passenger ship

Michelin isn't reinventing the wheel, it's reinventing the rubber supply chain

Death toll rises to 250 in Italian quake; 'it's like an apocalypse'