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China’s Largest Turbine Is Altering Wind and Rain in Ways No One Predicted
A single wind turbine with blades nearly as long as the Empire State Building is…
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Lost Medieval Manuscript Returns to Heidelberg After Centuries Adrift in Europe
A fifteenth-century manuscript that sat quietly in a German university library for nearly ninety years — its true origins unrecognized…
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A 400-Year-Old Greenland Shark Was Found Alive and Its Age Changes Everything
A shark that was already swimming through Arctic waters when the Thirty Years’ War was…
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The Tiny Animals That Quietly Brought Mount St. Helens Back to Life
When a volcano obliterates 230 square miles of landscape in a single morning, you might…
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A Deadly Box Jellyfish Found Near Singapore Turned Out to Be Entirely New
A jellyfish capable of killing a human being was hiding in plain sight near one…
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Scientists Found 248 Man-Made Chemicals in Seawater Far From Any Coast
Scientists have found 248 man-made chemicals lurking in seawater samples collected from across the globe…
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PCOS Just Got a New Name and People Have a Lot to Say About It
About 1 in 8 women worldwide live with a condition that has, until now, been…
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Chinese Farmer Built a Working Submarine for $700 — Now He Wants to Go Deeper
With roughly $700 in parts and no formal engineering training, a 60-year-old farmer from eastern…
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What Archaeologists Found Inside a 1,200-Year-Old Giant Stone Vessel Confirms a Long-Held Theory
Inside a massive stone jar buried in the highlands of Laos, archaeologists have uncovered something…
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Medieval China Had Newspapers Centuries Before Europe Ever Did
Centuries before the printing presses of Europe churned out their first gazettes, readers in medieval…
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A 1,000-Year-Old Seed Just Grew Into the Plant Ancient Judea Lost
A seed that sat untouched in a desert cave for roughly a thousand years has…
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What Fading Friendships Reveal About Who Was Doing All the Work
Nearly half of all Americans over the age of 60 report feeling lonely — not…
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The Cat-Linked Fungus Spreading in South America Whose First Signs Fool Most People
A fungus that spreads from cats to humans has now been confirmed in Uruguay —…
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Steel Ball Cylinder Built to Fight Earthquakes Needs No Power at All
What if the best defense against a catastrophic earthquake required no power grid, no sensors,…
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James Webb Just Mapped the Cosmic Web at a Scale Never Seen Before
The universe has a skeleton — and for the first time, scientists have mapped more…
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A Polish Judge Ordered Solar Panels Off a Balcony and Now Everyone Has an Opinion
A resident cut his electricity bill by more than one-third using a small solar kit…
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Turkey’s Biodegradable Wall Sticker Turns Cracked City Facades Into Living Gardens
What if the cracked, weathered walls of a city weren’t problems to be patched over…
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A U.S. Aircraft Carrier Just Pulled Up to the Panama Canal
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier anchored off Panama while a guided-missile destroyer docked in Panama City…
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Switzerland Is Burying a 2.1-GWh Battery That Could Run Europe’s Grid
Beneath a quiet Swiss town on the Rhine, workers are digging a hole nearly 90…
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The Stephen Hawking Quote Going Viral for What It Says About Quiet People
Doctors told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live. He lived for more than…
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What Crickets at Night Are Actually Telling You About Your Garden
That steady chirp coming from your garden after dark might feel like an unwelcome intrusion,…
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Thailand’s Longest-Necked Dinosaur Was Hiding in Plain Sight for Decades
A creature the length of three school buses, weighing as much as five African elephants,…