by National Geographic
October 6, 2010
John Roach for National Geographic News Astronomers studying a nearby star say they’ve found the first potentially habitable planet, likely a rocky place with an atmosphere, temperate regions, and crucially, liquid water, considered vital for life as we know it. Other extrasolar planets have been called Earthlike, but, astronomer Paul Butler assured, “this is really [...]
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by National Geographic
September 29, 2010
Oregano Moves Cows Toward Climate Neutral From Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic A dash of oregano does more than make pizza taste delicious: it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps, new research shows. Scientists have been trying to decrease methane from livestock for years; methane is over 20 times more potent [...]
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