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Jumbo Recalls Frozen Green Beans After Customers Find Dead Mice Inside
Finding a dead mouse in a bag of frozen green beans is not something any…
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A Startup Is Burying a Nuclear Reactor 6,000 Feet Underground in Kansas
What if the safest place to put a nuclear reactor wasn’t behind reinforced concrete walls above ground — but buried…
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How Losing Normandy in 1204 Quietly Transformed French Royal Power
When William the Conqueror seized England in 1066, he didn’t just claim its throne —…
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Tree Needles Caught Flashing UV Light During Storms And No One Can Explain It
During a single thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, researchers captured 859 ultraviolet flashes on one…
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NASA Spots a 50km Eye in the Sahara That Wind and Erosion Built
It looks like a giant eye staring back at you from space — a near-perfect…
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Antarctica Lost Its Sea Ice Suddenly — And Scientists Just Found the Cause
For decades, Antarctica’s sea ice behaved in a way that puzzled scientists and, frankly, gave…
Environment
22 Blocks From the Lighthouse of Alexandria Just Emerged From the Sea
Twenty-two stone blocks — some weighing as much as 88 U.S. tons apiece — have…
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A Strange Green Coating on a Texas Sea Turtle Revealed a Deeper Crisis
A sea turtle washed ashore on Pirate’s Beach on Galveston Island, Texas, on March 7,…
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The Maths Behind Finding a Message in a Bottle Will Surprise You
A 100-year-old message in a bottle, written by a World War One soldier who declared…
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Adam of Bremen Mapped a Medieval North Full of Dragons and Amazons
What happens when a medieval scholar tries to describe a world he has never seen?…
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Germany’s Rhine River Turbines Keep Running When Solar and Wind Cannot
What if the answer to renewable energy’s biggest weakness — the fact that the sun…
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Einstein’s Bicycle Quote Came From a Letter — And the Real Message Goes Deeper
One of the most widely shared quotes on the internet traces back not to a…
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Blue Crab Larvae Are Being Eaten Alive — But Shallow Waters Change Everything
More than 97 percent of all predation on juvenile blue crabs in mid-salinity Chesapeake Bay…
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Magma Ocean Planets Now Have Their Own Category And It Changes Everything
About 35 light years from Earth — roughly 206 trillion miles away — a planet…
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A Fossil Smaller Than a Fingernail Just Rewrote 40 Million Years of Mammal History
A tooth barely larger than a grain of sand is rewriting what scientists thought they…
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This Artificial Leaf Runs on Sunlight Alone and Makes Fuel From CO2
The chemical industry is responsible for roughly 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to…
Environment
Frozen Mouse Brain Reactivated — And It’s Changing What We Know About Memory
What if the part of your brain responsible for memory could be frozen, stored at…
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The Living Knee Implant Developers Say Could Change Who Gets Surgery
What if a knee replacement could actually become part of you — not just a…
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Global Warming Could Take Centuries to Reverse Once It Peaks
Scientists now say it’s essentially certain that humanity will miss the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming…
Environment
China’s Coastal Cities Are Sinking While Sea Levels Rise at a 4,000-Year High
Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in the last 4,000 years —…
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Chimpanzees Caught Playing With Crystals — And It Changes What We Thought We Knew
Archaeologists have puzzled for decades over a strange recurring discovery: quartz and calcite crystals turning…
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Atlantic Current Is Edging Toward Collapse And Scientists Are Alarmed
From an ocean current inching toward a point of no return, to neurons built in…