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A video of traffic lights melting in the heat is racing across Europe right now, but the thing this record heatwave is really warping is far bigger and far harder to look awa…

Right now a short video is racing around the internet. It shows a traffic light in Europe slumping sideways, the coloured ...
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Wind turbines are sold as clean energy’s answer, and they are, but the blades turning overhead hide a recycling problem almost no one sees coming

Wind turbines power millions of homes, but their massive blades can't be recycled easily. Here's the hidden waste problem ...
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Ancient iceberg tracks scratched into lake beds are revealing the wind patterns of a vanished ice age giant

Discover how ancient iceberg tracks reveal wind patterns from the Laurentide Ice Sheet, reshaping our understanding of North ...
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Around 80 hoopoes descended on Britain and Ireland in a single week, and the strange secret in the nest of a bird painted on tombs 4,000 years ago has nothing t…

Over 80 hoopoe birds flooded Cornwall and Ireland in spring 2025. The stunning birds carry a nest secret that will make you ...
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A defence telescope in Chile caught a fast-moving dot while scanning the sky for dangerous asteroids, and what it turned out to be was something the system was n…

A telescope built to protect Earth from asteroids accidentally discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever ...
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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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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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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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Hundreds of mysterious tremors are shaking Antarctica’s ice in a place where earthquakes should be geologically impossible

Geologically speaking, East Antarctica is supposed to be one of the quietest places on Earth — a vast, frozen interior sitting firmly within a single tectonic plate, far from any boundary where ...
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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 ...