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Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead

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Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead

Few living things can cope with temperatures above 100°C, but a controversial study suggests some bacterial spores can withstand 420°C heat for over 30 minutes

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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit

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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit

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I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

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I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

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Forest fires engulfed homes when a heatwave hit Russia in 2010

Earth

US and Russia will soon face mega-heatwaves from climate change

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Hot springs, Yellowstone National Park

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Ancient microbes caused Earth’s first ever global warming

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Desert

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Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa

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Ice

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Gel-like ice is the lightest form of water ever discovered

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Leaves of various sizes in greenery

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We may finally understand why tropical plants have huge leaves

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Melting tundra

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Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet

Analysis

Thwaites glacier

Earth

Living with climate change: What's the worst that can happen?

If Earth reaches dangerous tipping points like the Antarctic glaciers melting, we'll have to engineer our way out of the crisis. It's difficult to gauge how far we are from either of those things

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Space

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

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Physics

Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time

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Big cities warm up during the week as commuters flock in

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Technology

Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever

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