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In the heart of Earth’s coldest, driest desert—Antarctica—scientists have uncovered a surprising chronicle of life thriving far away in the world’s forests and savannas. By analyzing ancient air trapped in ice cores, researchers have discovered compelling new evidence that global plant growth has significantly accelerated over the last century, with the rate of increase speeding

Hans Georg Dehmelt, a physicist whose elegant experiments captured and held individual particles, allowing humanity to study the electron with unprecedented precision and earning him a share of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on March 7 at his home in Seattle. He was 94. His death was confirmed by the University of Washington,