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Cyclists and hikers pushed back for years, and now Chuckanut Drive’s famous coastal stretch is locked at 35 mph for good

For decades, SR 11/Chuckanut Drive has drawn visitors from across the Pacific Northwest — a narrow ribbon of highway where ...
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Starting in May, the days of pinching to zoom in on tiny icons could be over after a legal change forces thousands of apps to redesign their screens

The days of tiny icons and complicated menu's in apps are about to become a thing of the past as a legal change forces ...
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Frozen since the last Ice Age, a single Alpine glacier has been quietly recording 12,000 years of human history

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...
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NASA is warning of a historic snow drought in Colorado this spring caused by a rare phenomenon that may happen only once every 1,000 years

NASA environmental experts have warned that this year's snow drought in Colorado is the result of a rare phenomenon that only ...
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Someone thought putting a wind turbine in the North Sea was a good idea. Now seals are swimming around it in perfect squares while death spreads through the su…

Researchers discovered that some seals were gathering around wind turbines in the North Sea. And they followed a specific ...
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Researchers tracking cheetahs and lions with GPS discovered that rising heat is altering their ‘fear maps’ and pushing the predators into conflict

Researchers tracked 43 predators in Africa. Only to discover that Cheetahs and Lions' fear maps were being altered during ...
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NASA says a ninth planet beyond Neptune ‘should be there,’ and astronomers believe telescopes may have been capturing signs of it since 1930

A ninth planet may be tugging at the outer edges of our solar system. Astronomers were studying distant icy objects beyond Neptune. In 2014, astronomers found six Kuiper Belt objects clustered in ...
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This solar farm was being overrun by clover until 10 cows and their calves arrived to clear it, and now they live beneath the shade of the panels

Middle Tennessee had a problem that machines couldn’t solve. Lush clover was choking the Christiana Solar Ranch. Traditional crews were losing the battle against the rising green. The transformation ...
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After 40 years of melting ice, Alaska has gained a new island revealing land hidden since the Little Ice Age of the 14th century

For several decades, scientists were tracking ice melts in Alaska. Now, the melting has revealed a hidden island that has ...
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Supercomputer simulations found that tiny defects in solar cells actually capture more energy, and now physicists are rethinking everything about panel design

When a team of German physicists set their simulations running on one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, they were hunting for flaws — atomic-level imperfections at solar cell interfaces that ...