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A golf-ball-sized blue octopus spotted crawling across the Galapagos seafloor turned out to be a creature science had never seen before

Discover the newly identified blue octopus, *Microeledone galapagensis*, found in the Galápagos, showcasing the ocean's ...
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Coal miners in India were digging underground until they uncovered a 50-foot monster that once fought for survival alongside Earth’s most terrifying predators

A crew of coal miners in India were digging in the ground until they unearthed a 50-foot monster that lived during one of the ...
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Scientists looked beneath an Italian solar park and found tiny creatures living completely different lives depending on which side of the panels they called home

Researchers have found that several tiny creatures are behaving differently at a solar park in Italy depending on which side ...
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TESS data uncovers 27 candidate worlds orbiting two suns at once, using a method that could reshape how we find circumbinary planets

Discover 27 new candidate circumbinary planets identified by TESS, reshaping our understanding of planetary formation around ...
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America’s “Emerald Isle” sits alone in Lake Michigan, and stargazers are only now rediscovering what Irish fishermen stumbled upon there centuries ago

America's "Emerald Isle" has been sitting silently in Lake Michigan for centuries and has been the focus of a new mission for ...
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After more than a century of debate, scientists have finally proven that a pianist’s touch can change the very color of sound

Scientists have confirmed that a pianist’s touch can subtly change the color and character of sound, ending a debate that ...
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Tiny hidden teeth inside a 300-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of octopuses

For 25 years, a 300-million-year-old fossil from Illinois held an extraordinary distinction: the oldest octopus ever found, ...
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Sydney’s wild cockatoos taught each other which city foods were safe to eat and scientists watched the lesson spread through hundreds of birds

The world of wild cockatoos in Sydney, Australia have been found to teach each other what is safe to eat and the behavior is spreading among the flock.
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Neighbors in a quiet English village started digging beneath their streets after old tunnel rumors surfaced online, and what they found goes back centuries

It started with a Facebook thread — neighbors in the Oxfordshire village of Bloxham trading half-remembered stories about ...
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China just put the world’s most powerful floating wind turbine to sea and the global energy race may never look the same

Somewhere off the coast of China, a platform the size of a small city block is rising and falling with the ocean swells — and ...
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Birds usually avoid wind turbines, until one rare species in the Netherlands started using them like stepping stones during its epic migrations

For years, most migratory birds avoided wind turbines. Now, researchers have found that some are actively using them as stepping stones on migratory patterns.
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They covered a Dutch lake with solar panels and dropped strange shell-filled “biohuts” underwater until mussels, sponges, and other creatures began hiding there from hungry ...

At a floating solar panel farm in the Netherlands, "biohuts" were used to attract a world of marine species all living in harmony underneath the panels.