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The Danish company Maersk has been shipping goods around the world since the age of steamships. Now it wants to usher in a new era, with carbon neutral transport.

Giant Shipper Bets Big On Ending Its Carbon Emissions. Will It Pay Off?

Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, has set a massive goal for itself: going carbon neutral by 2050. This would be good for the world. But how would it be good for the bottom line?

This 5,000-year-old funnel for beer-making was unearthed at a dig site in the Central Plain of China.

5,000-Year-Old Chinese Beer Recipe Revealed

Researchers discovered ancient "beer-making tool kits" in underground rooms built between 3400 and 2900 B.C. Analyses of funnels, pots and jugs show the brewers were using pretty advanced techniques.

Keeper Zachariah Mutai attends in March to Fatu, one of only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen where she is kept for observation, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. Scientists have successfully grown hybrid white rhino embryos in the lab, stoking hopes that a purebred northern white rhino could be implanted in a surrogate.

Scientists Hope Lab-Grown Embryos Can Save Rhino Species From Extinction

Only two northern white rhinos remain, and they're both female. But researchers said Wednesday that they successfully have created embryos using sperm collected from the males before they died out.

The California State Capitol in the early evening in Sacramento, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

‘It’s Inexcusable’: Dozens Of California Government Agencies Failed To Provide Sexual Harassment Training To Nearly 1,800 Supervisors

A CapRadio investigation found that, in 2018, nearly 60 percent of agencies surveyed by the State Personnel Board did not provide this training, up from 25 percent in 2016.

Keller measures the separation in a student's abdominal muscles using her fingers as a guide.

Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day

The technical term is diastasis recti and it affects many new moms. The growing fetus pushes apart the abdominal muscles and the separation often stays open. But science suggests this fix can work.

Alex Jones, pictured in 2018, was sanctioned by a Connecticut judge on Tuesday after railing on the attorney representing victims' families in a defamation suit against the Internet provocateur.

Sandy Hook Victim's Father Wins Defamation Suit; Alex Jones Sanctioned

"Mr. Pozner has sought for years to try to get these conspiracy theorists to understand that his son really was a person and that his son really did die," attorney Jake Zimmerman told NPR.

Diana Escamilla (center), an organizer with Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, poses for a photo with volunteers Angeles Rosales and Janet Mendez in front of a 2020 census outreach campaign poster in Spanish.

2020 Census Could Lead To Worst Undercount Of Black, Latinx People In 30 Years

Public debate over a potential citizenship question and immigration enforcement, combined with the census going online, threatens an accurate head count, according to research by the Urban Institute.

UC Irvine's Anthony James holds up a container of genetically modified mosquitoes, April 17, 2015.

Genetic Chain Reaction Isn’t Ready For Release In The Wild, Scientists Say

A technique known as "gene drive" could fight diseases like malaria and Zika by rewriting the rules of genetic inheritance. But it's not ready for use in the wild, according to a new report.

A normal gas meter as viewed by a FLIR thermal imaging camera, Oct. 8, 2017.

Two Ways Natural Gas May Be Escaping At Your Meter

Natural gas is leaking — sometimes deliberately — from residential gas meters up and down the state of California. That surprise is buried in state documents, a review by inewsource has found.

Swarthmore College students held a four-day sit-in at the Phi Psi fraternity house that ended Tuesday night after the organization said it had voted to disband. Delta Upsilon, the only other fraternity on campus, made a similar decision about an hour later.

Swarthmore Fraternities Disband Over Leaked Documents That Detailed Misogyny

"We were appalled and disgusted by the content of these minutes, which led us to question our affiliation with an organization," current members of Phi Psi said in a statement Tuesday night.

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