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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 truck hauling a blade the length of a Boeing 747 inches through a Colorado mountain town at midnight, and the giant machine waiting to replace that convoy i…

Wind turbine blades are now so long they can barely squeeze through US roads. The wild solution engineers built to fix that ...
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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 ...
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The ocean current that keeps US winters mild has been sliding north for decades, and scientists say it is trying to tell us something no one expected

The Gulf Stream has been slowly drifting north near Cape Hatteras — and scientists say that movement is a hidden warning ...
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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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Yellowstone’s wolf count just fell to its lowest in years, and the $82 million secret it keeps is forcing economists to rethink what a predator is really worth

Yellowstone's wolf population just dropped to 84. The $82 million economic secret these predators carry is reshaping how we ...
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NASA considered building a nuclear power plant on the Moon, but is now betting on a far stranger energy source hidden beneath the Earth’s surface

Discover NASA's innovative regenerative fuel cell system designed to keep astronauts powered during the Moon's two-week ...
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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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An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island was built to generate power until thousands of black sea bass turned it into an artificial reef

America’s first offshore wind project was hardly welcomed with open arms. Skeptics’ greatest fear was that local fisheries and ecosystems would be destroyed. A groundbreaking seven-year study was ...
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An old oil well no one could find just swallowed 1.5 million gallons of toxic water under a Texas church parking lot in Grandfalls

Discover how an old oil well beneath a Texas church parking lot released 1.5 million gallons of toxic water, affecting the ...
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Artificial grass looked like the safest, cleanest place for small children to play, and the real catch only shows up once you learn what is woven into every blade

Artificial grass arrived with an almost perfect pitch for tired parents. It stays green all year, never floods into mud after ...
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A robot sat across the table from professional athletes in Tokyo and did something no machine had ever managed before, and it learned nothing from watching humans

Sony AI's Ace robot defeated professional table tennis players in Tokyo — and the eeriest part is how it learned: never by ...