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Hubble Returned to the Trifid Nebula After 30 Years and Caught It Changing
Five thousand light-years away, in the constellation Sagittarius, a cloud of gas and dust is…
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How Judas Goats and Helicopters Saved the Galápagos Tortoises
More than 140,000 feral goats were removed from the Galápagos Islands between 1997 and 2006 — and the methods used…
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What Cats Are Actually Doing When They Flick Their Heads Back and Forth
If you’ve ever watched your cat finish a meal or enjoy a good ear scratch…
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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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East Coast Forests Could Be Next as Trump Eyes the Roadless Rule
When most Americans picture a national forest, they see towering pines in the Pacific Northwest…
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Henry V Was More Than a Warrior-King — And History Proves It
At just thirteen years old, the future Henry V was already living inside a political…
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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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A 14-Year-Old Beat the World’s Best Macro Photographers With an Old Camera
A 14-year-old photographer just beat competitors from around the world — using a camera that’s…
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Chernobyl Melted Down in 1986 — And the World Had No Idea How Close It Came
A routine safety test. That’s all it was supposed to be. On April 26, 1986,…
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The Ocean Has Been Quietly Preventing a Global Drought for Over a Century
What if the world’s most important farming regions all ran dry at the same time?…
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The F-47 Is Two Years From Flight And Already Changing Global Air Power Calculations
The United States Air Force says its next-generation fighter jet is moving faster than almost…
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Scientists Created an Aluminum Form That Could Replace Costly Critical Metals
Aluminum is the most abundant metal in Earth’s crust, used in everything from soda cans…
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The Dam Meant to Save AMOC Could Actually Speed Up Its Collapse
What if the answer to one of climate science’s most alarming threats involved building one…
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Russia Is Hiding Antennas Inside Fake Trees to Blind Ukraine’s Drones
What looks like a fallen log or a dead tree on the edge of a…
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Was Almost Always Fatal — Doctors Are Changing That
An infection with a “brain-eating” amoeba is one of the most terrifying diagnoses in medicine…
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Inside ThrÃhnúkagÃgur: The Volcano You Can Actually Descend Into
Somewhere beneath the lava fields of southwest Iceland, there is a door into the Earth…
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8 East Coast Cities Face Extreme Flood Risk — New York Leads the List
Half of New York City’s entire population — roughly 4.4 million people — could be…
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Illegal Logging Uncovered in Romania Reignites the Fight for Its Forests
How can a company hold a valid timber permit and still end up at the…