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A rare wild cat began appearing at this solar farm after dark, and cameras soon revealed it was bringing its entire family

A rare wild cat began appearing at this solar farm after dark, and cameras soon revealed it was bringing its entire family to ...
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More than 150 slow, ancient desert dwellers were carried away to clear room for a giant solar project, and what biologists noticed years later about where these anima…

Then researchers looked closely at the desert tortoise living in and around a working solar farm in Nevada, and the picture ...
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Twelve containers arrived at a Thai port labeled as scrap metal, and what inspectors found inside is forcing the US to take back something it hoped no one would notice

Thailand seized 284 tonnes of US electronic waste falsely labeled as scrap metal at Laem Chabang port. Here's why the ...
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Artificial grass looked like the perfect lawn, green all year with no mowing and no watering, until you see what it slowly kills in the soil beneath it

Artificial grass cannot simply be rolled over living ground. First the real turf is stripped away. Then the soil is flattened ...
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A 20-ton sperm whale hauled itself onto a South Carolina resort beach, and the same instrument built to catch dying stars had been listening to its kind all along

A juvenile sperm whale stranded at Hilton Head Island in May 2025. What scientists found during the necropsy raises bigger ...
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Scientists built a panel that turns seawater into drinking water with nothing but sunlight, and instead of toxic brine it hands back table salt and the metal inside you…

A University of Rochester team built laser-etched black metal panels that turn seawater into drinking water with zero toxic ...
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A houseplant millions of Americans already own barely cleans the air at all, but scientists found a way to turn it into something that rivals a machine

A Paris biotech firm rewired the common pothos plant with engineered bacteria, making one plant clean air as well as 30 ...
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It looks like a pile of sticks no one would ever buy, and millions sit in US streams right now, but scientists ran the numbers on what they are actually worth

Beaver dams look like random debris, but scientists have calculated their true dollar value in flood control, clean water and ...
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Across 124 British solar farms, surveyors kept spotting the same large animal racing between the panel rows, a creature that has all but vanished from the open fields ar…

Just after dawn, a solar farm in the English lowlands is almost silent. Long rows of dark panels stretch across the grass, ...
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A buoy off the Florida Keys read 101 degrees in the water, and the scientists watching it had to throw out the scale they trusted

A 101°F ocean reading in the Florida Keys triggered the worst coral bleaching event in history and forced NOAA to invent ...
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A wall of amber lights crept past at 3 a.m., and what it left behind on the empty highway has road scientists rethinking everything

That slow convoy blocking traffic isn't just moving massive machines. Science reveals what happens to the road behind it — ...
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Three divers died guessing what it was, and the World War II submarine they found off New Jersey was never supposed to be there

Divers uncovered a WWII submarine off New Jersey that puzzled investigators, as its location did not match historical records ...