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This image made available by the European Space agency shows galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012, an improved version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. A study from the Max Planck Institute in Germany published Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in the journal Science uses a new technique to come up with a rate that the universe is expanding that is nearly 18% higher than the number scientists had been using since the year 2000. (NASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), HUDF 2012 Team via AP)

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Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressSeptember 12, 2019

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Earth’s future written in Greenland’s glacier melt

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 20, 2019

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a dealer resets a deck of cards at a casino in Las Vegas. A Cornell University study released on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, created a card game that literally stacked the deck in favor of winners. Yet 60% of those winners thought it was fair, even though they were shown how the deck was stacked. Sociologists say the study tells us about privilege and how we perceive fairness. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Winners take credit, even when they know game’s rigged

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 17, 2019

Russ Wilson splashes water on his face from a fountain in New York, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The heat wave that has been roasting much of the U.S. in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Heat wave rolling in for scorching weekend

by Corey Williams Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 17, 2019

People walk in Tree Library park in Milan, Italy, Dec. 4. The city has ambitious plans to plant 3 million new trees by 2030 — a move that experts say could offer relief from the city’s muggy and sometimes tropical weather.

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How to fight climate change? Plant many trees

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 4, 2019

In this Oct. 12, 2018 file photo, a man holds a frame removed from a hive box covered with honey bees in Lansing, Mich. According to the results of an annual survey of beekeepers released on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, winter hit America’s honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)

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Survey sees biggest US honeybee winter die-off yet

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterJune 19, 2019

FILE - This combination of Dec. 13 and 17, 2018 photos shows the Utah State Capitol during clear and an inversion day in Salt Lake City. Inversions hover over Salt Lake City as cold, stagnant air settles in the bowl-shaped mountain basins, trapping tailpipe and other emissions that have no way of escaping to create a brown, murky haze the engulfs the metro area. After decades of getting ever cleaner, America’s air quality seems to be stagnating. In 2017 and 2018, the nation had more...

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US air quality slipping after years on upswing

by Seth Borenstein Associated Press, and Nicky Forster Associated PressJune 18, 2019

A lemur looks through the forest at Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Andasibe, Madagascar, Dec. 14, 2011.

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UN biodiversity report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressMay 6, 2019

This image made from a composite of September 2003-January 2004 photos captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows nearly 10,000 galaxies in the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos, cutting across billions of light-years. In research released on Friday, Nobel winning astronomer Adam Riess calculates the cosmos is between 12.5 and 13.0 billion years old — about 1 billion years younger than previous estimates.

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New study says universe expanding faster and is younger

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressApril 27, 2019

Shep Doeleman, left, of Harvard is the Event Horizon Telescope principal investigator. Gopal Narayanan, right, the principal investigator for the UMass Amherst team that took part in the experiment.

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UMass Amherst astronomers helped reveal first image of black hole

by Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer/Staff writer, and Dusty Christensen AP Science Writer/Staff writerApril 10, 2019