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Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The nonaqueous extraction (NAE) of bitumen has been proposed as a more environmentally ...

It’s never too early for some holiday spirit. The California State Railroad Museum has released dates and ticket information for the popular Polar Express train ride, which returns starting in ...

Each year, polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay face a race against the seasons. As summer rolls in and sea ice melts, their crucial hunting grounds vanish — leaving them stranded on land without access ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a ...