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China is building a huge weather-control machine 鈥� will it work?
Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment
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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships
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Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America
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Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there
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Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
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Ancient microbes caused Earth鈥檚 first ever global warming
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Space
We may know why Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is red instead of white
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A layer of haze keeps Pluto鈥檚 atmosphere extremely cold
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Dimming the sun could save corals from bleaching and hurricanes
Climate change will harm corals by overheating them and unleashing more violent hurricanes, but cooling the planet by geoengineering could reverse those effects
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Lunar volcanoes and lava lakes gave the early moon an atmosphere
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A few cold drops falling through a cloud could create a downpour
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Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships
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Jupiter鈥檚 powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth鈥檚
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