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Police divers found an 8-kilogram block of volcanic glass on the seafloor near Capri’s Blue Grotto, and the story it tells about who was crossing the Mediterranean more t…

Police divers found an 8kg obsidian block near Capri's Blue Grotto, possibly the cargo of a 5,000-year-old Neolithic vessel — ...
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A wispy grass that most gardeners wave off as a harmless weed has taken over more than 100 million acres of the American West, and the reason it always wins is strang…

A new genetic study reveals cheatgrass has split into 19 near-clonal forms across the West, each perfectly tuned to its ...
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A French engineer watched a tiny worm chew through wet timber 200 years ago, and the giant machine his idea became is now eating through entire mountains beneat…

Tunnel boring machines can devour rock like a living creature. But the real surprise is what NASA and space engineers want to ...
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Two enormous planets once roamed our young solar system alongside Earth, then vanished without a trace and left Uranus’ moons permanently scarred

Two massive planets may have once existed in early solar system before being ejected, leaving behind evidence in unusual ...
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About 90 percent of New York homes have air conditioning, and one detail keeps revealing why that number quietly fails the people who need it most in a serious he…

A record-breaking June 2025 heat wave killed 19 New Yorkers in 4 days. The detail in nearly every death reveals why air ...
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A barnacle from a Korean estuary crossed the entire Pacific in just two weeks clinging to a steel hull, and the living crisis riding on 120,000 ships is one of the worst ...

Every shipping container crossing the ocean carries a hidden world of living organisms. Scientists say this invisible cargo ...
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Juno, a 1,200-pound sea turtle scarred by boats and fishing gear, just made Florida nesting history after 25 years of coming back

Discover Juno, the 1,200-pound leatherback turtle, as she makes history with her 300th nest on Florida's beaches after 25 ...
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A sparrow sized blue bird crosses 1,200 miles of darkness over the Gulf of Mexico every year with no map or compass, and the navigation trick it teaches itself before …

The indigo bunting crosses the Gulf of Mexico every night using the stars as a compass. The science of how this tiny bird ...
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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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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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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 ...