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In the North Sea, one wind farm spun so powerfully that it stole wind from another 34 miles away, creating giant ‘wind shadows’

In the North Sea, one wind farm spun so powerfully that it stole wind from another 34 miles away, creating giant ‘wind ...
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Greenland lost 105 billion tonnes of ice last year, and the dark grey stain spreading across what remains is running a feedback loop that most forecasts still undercount

Greenland lost 105 billion tonnes of ice in the 2024–25 season, and a darkening feedback loop across the surface is ...
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One fossil tooth sitting nearly 2 miles deep in the Pacific just moved megalodon off the coast and out into the open ocean, rewriting where the largest shark that ever li…

A megalodon tooth found 2 miles down in the Pacific, sitting exactly where it fell millions of years ago, is rewriting what ...
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Psychology of growing up with little affection: people who rarely heard “I love you” as kids aren’t damaged beyond repair, they may have built 3 remarkable survival ...

Psychology says people who grew up with little affection aren't broken. Science reveals 3 remarkable skills they quietly ...
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Sold as nothing more than clean power, a Sahara paved in solar panels would more than double the rain in the Sahel, and the reason is the opposite of what almost eve…

A recent study has found an unexpected benefit from the undisputed king of the renewable energy sector as solar panels are ...
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More than 95 percent of it vanished off northern California in just a few years, and once economists finally ran the numbers, the forest hiding under the waves turned …

More than 90% of California's bull kelp vanished in 5 years. Scientists just priced what was really lost at $500 billion a ...
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A wind turbine with no blades at all, just a 9 foot pole that shivers in the breeze, turns wind into power using the same force that tore a Washington bridge apart in 1940

A Spanish startup's vibrating pole generates electricity with no blades, no noise, and no bird strikes — and it could sit ...
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Around 44, people say their body changes almost overnight, and a scan of 135,000 molecules found they are right, aging hits in two sharp waves at 44 and 60 instead …

Psychology says people who feel their body change sharply in their 40s aren't imagining things. Stanford scientists tracked ...
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A crab with hairy claws like mittens can climb a 13 foot wall, and the one that turned up 150 miles up an Oregon river digs burrows that hollow out the bank until it cave…

A crab with hairy claws is spreading through US rivers from San Francisco Bay to the Hudson, drilling tunnels into levees and ...
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Sold as one of Europe’s most powerful nuclear plants, Gravelines was switched off by an animal that is 95 percent water, and the 4 reactors it stopped reveal a problem th…

It is about 95 percent water, a drifting bag of jelly that cannot swim against a current. On a summer night on the French ...
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This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water

This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water. It's ...
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An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

Offshore fish farming isn’t traditionally known for sustainability. The industry relies on burning a lot of diesel. One farm in Chile wanted to move towards a renewable solution and reduce the farm’s ...