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A small Florida town runs on nothing but solar power, and when a Category 4 hurricane hit it head on, the wetlands it was built around quietly soaked up the floo…

On September 28, 2022, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States came ashore in southwest Florida.
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A 3,000-year-old stone in southwest Spain combined symbols that had never appeared together, and it is challenging long-held assumptions about prehistoric id…

A 3,000-year-old carved stone unearthed in Spain carries a headdress, a necklace, two swords — and male genitals. It just ...
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USGS helicopters will fly just 100 feet above Lake Superior’s shoreline to map hidden minerals and buried freshwater structures underground

USGS helicopters will map hidden minerals and freshwater structures above Lake Superior, revealing crucial geological data ...
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Dogs are beloved members of 90 million American households, and the number scientists just pulled from nearly 1,000 bags of kibble reveals an uncomfortable trut…

A new study of nearly 1,000 dog food brands found your pet's bowl may carry a bigger climate cost than your own dinner, and ...
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Clothes dryers promised dry laundry in an hour, rain or shine, in the space of a single closet, but the lint you pull off the screen is less than 80 percent of what every load ...

Toss the wet laundry in, press a button, and warm dry clothes come out an hour later. The hard part is not the laundry ...
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More than a thousand solar farms now sit on old American ranchland, and the four legged workers patrolling the rows between them are doing a job no one ever expe…

Picture a solar farm stretching to the horizon over old American ranchland. Rows of dark panels, baking in the afternoon sun, ...
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They sent robots into the deadliest stretch of ocean on Earth, where 800 ships have sunk, and found underwater mountains quietly running one of the planet’s biggest carbon pumps

Beneath the Drake Passage's savage waves lies a hidden mountain world doing something remarkable for every living thing on Earth. The science will change how you see the ocean.
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Pink is almost nonexistent in nature, but NASA has just found it in mysterious ‘galactic pearls’ formed 3 million years ago

Discover NASA's stunning image of Westerlund 2, a star cluster with vibrant colors revealing the secrets of star formation in our galaxy.
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A ship carrying 10,800 cars across 14 decks just set sail as the world’s largest car carrier, and the floating parking structure inside it is something almost nobody on the ...

The Glovis Leader just became the world's largest car carrier, hauling 10,800 vehicles across the ocean at once. What's inside this floating giant will surprise you.
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California planned to install 30,000 solar mirrors in the Mojave Desert until a group of desert tortoises showed up and said “Not here”

California planned to install 30,000 solar mirrors for renewable power in the Mojave Desert until a group of desert tortoises showed up and said, "Not here!" ...
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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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Psychology of always planning for the worst case: Psychology says people who expect things to go wrong aren’t pessimists, they may be running a sharper forecast than everyone ...

A University of Bath study of 36,000 people found that excessive optimism is linked to lower cognitive ability and poorer financial decisions. Here's what it means for you.