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Critics say U.K. investment in research on climate-cooling interventions, such as refreezing sea ice and brightening clouds, ...

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Niu worked with University of Pennsylvania physicist Randall D. Kamien and Geneviève Dion, founding director of Drexel ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

Beth S. Russell is a professor of human development and family sciences and director of the Center for Applied Research in ...

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