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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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A coalition was handed $1.5 million to bring sea otters back to Oregon and Northern California, and the $500 billion secret hiding in those waters changes everything eco…

A $1.5M federal grant aims to return sea otters to Oregon and Northern California, unlocking a $500 billion underwater ...
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A defence telescope in Chile caught a fast-moving dot while scanning the sky for dangerous asteroids, and what it turned out to be was something the system was n…

A telescope built to protect Earth from asteroids accidentally discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever ...
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Engineers built a cement composite 17 times tougher than plain cement paste, and the animal hiding the answer has been doing it for 450 million years

Princeton engineers built a cement 17x tougher than traditional concrete by copying a trick hidden inside abalone shells for ...
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Scientists cracked open 160-million-year-old rocks from a French riverbed and found a creature that looks almost exactly like something alive in the ocean today, and th…

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...