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When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy was created in 1977 by merging two agencies with different missions: the Atomic Energy Commission, which developed, tested and maintained the nation’s nuclear weapons, ...

In fact, every decade since 1984, when satellite recordkeeping of ocean temperatures started, has been warmer than the previous one. The global ocean’s surface temperature was still well above average ...