Americans want to combat climate change. But how much will they pay? and other top stories.

• Americans want to combat climate change. But how much will they pay?

  

  More Americans now acknowledge the existence of climate change and the need to combat it, but far fewer see the task as something for which they should be held financially responsible, according to a new poll.The poll, conducted by the Energy Police Institute at the University of Chicago and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 65 percent of people think climate change is an issue the government needs to address, but many are unwilling to pay any money to sto..

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• Big step for quantum teleportation won't bring us any closer to iStar Trek/i. Here's why

  

  Two teams have set new distance records for quantum teleportation: using the weirdness of quantum mechanics to instantly transfer the condition or “state” of one quantum particle to another one in a different location. One group used the trick to send the state of a quantum particle of light, or photon, 6.2 kilometers across Calgary, Canada, using an optical fiber, while the other teleported the states of photons over 14.7 kilometers across Shanghai, China. Both advances, reported today in Natu..

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• As sea ice retreats, will wind stir up Atlantic water heat in the Arctic Ocean?

  

  The Arctic region is warming up at twice the rate as the rest of the planet, and the most obvious symptom of this warming is the retreat of the sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice cover reaches its seasonal minimum around mid-September every ...

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• Sea otter survey encouraging, but comes up short of the 'perfect story'

  

  The southern sea otter, Enhydra lutris nereis, continues its climb toward recovery, according to the annual count released today by the U.S. Geological Survey and partners. For the first time, southern sea otters' numbers have exceeded 3,090, which is ...

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