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Engineers built a cement composite 17 times tougher than plain cement paste, and the animal hiding the answer has been doing it for 450 million years

Princeton engineers built a cement 17x tougher than traditional concrete by copying a trick hidden inside abalone shells for ...
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A coalition was handed $1.5 million to bring sea otters back to Oregon and Northern California, and the $500 billion secret hiding in those waters changes everything eco…

A $1.5M federal grant aims to return sea otters to Oregon and Northern California, unlocking a $500 billion underwater ...
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Psychology of walking with the eyes on the ground: Psychology says people who look down as they walk aren’t lonely or sad, they may be giving an overloaded mind the room it ...

Psychology reveals why so many people walk with their gaze fixed on the ground, and the surprising truth about what it really signals about the brain and emotions.
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China floated a 16-megawatt wind turbine in water too deep to bolt anything to the seafloor, and the giant machine rising 885 feet above the South China Sea changes …

China installed the world's largest single-unit floating wind turbine in May 2026. Here's why the Three Gorges Pilot rewrites ...
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Every summer, a glowing electric-blue ripple appears in the twilight sky above the northern United States, and the ingredient that builds it has never come from Earth

Every June, electric-blue noctilucent clouds glow above the US at twilight. The ingredient that builds them is stranger than ...
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Only 51 remain in the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists can now identify every one of them by name

Only 51 Rice’s whales remain in the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists can identify each one individually, revealing just how fragile this population has become.
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Scientists cracked open 160-million-year-old rocks from a French riverbed and found a creature that looks almost exactly like something alive in the ocean today, and th…

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...
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They drilled into the ocean floor across 3 oceans and pulled up 40,000 ancient fragments, and the creature they traced back 104 million years is one almost nobod…

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...
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A wind farm in Patagonia got unexpected new neighbors when a group of adorable wild mammals suddenly moved in

A wind farm in Patagonia got unexpected new neighbors when a group of adorable wild mammals suddenly moved in, changing the function of the land.
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Everyone in the forest has learned to avoid a porcupine’s 30,000 quills, and the one creature that cracked the code lives in American backyards almost nobody ever sees

The fisher cat is one of America's most elusive forest predators, and its method for killing a porcupine is one of the most ...
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They mapped the ocean floor and discovered more than 19,000 ancient volcanoes hiding in the dark, and the scale of what still lies beneath is adding urgency to one …

A project to chart the deep ocean just revealed 19,000 hidden ancient volcanoes, and still nearly three-quarters of the ...