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Visitors photograph a butterfly specimen at the Center of Space Exploration of the Ministry of Education at Chongqing University in Chongqing on Monday. Researchers from the university announced that ...

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Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.