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The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...
Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...
Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...
The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...
Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...
Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...
Record low temperatures were recorded as far south as Chile's Atacama Desert, where snow fell for the first time in a decade, ...
In Chile’s arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...
CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using ...
The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address ...
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