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A solar plant seven times the size of Manhattan in Tibet is reshaping the local microclimate and even ‘growing’ solar sheeps

Yet another nation has turned to the potential of solar power. Tibet has found that life is thriving in and around the ...
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Experts have discovered hidden ‘switches’ in our DNA that may accelerate evolution and could explain what makes humans unique

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a hidden 'switch' in our DNA that rapidly accelerate ...
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A wind farm built to generate electricity began sending lightning-like discharges into the sky and triggering unusual storms

A recent study has detailed the latest issue for wind farms around the world. They have found that wind farms can create ...
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A 2,000-kilometer dust front swept from Algeria to the Canary Islands — and satellites captured every stage

Within hours, that plume had grown into a dust front roughly 2,000 kilometers long — stretching from Algeria all the way to ...
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For 150 years, people believed a river in Utah was flowing uphill until scientists uncovered the real explanation

The Green River in Utah's Uinta Mountain range has been flowing uphill for 150 years and nobody knew why until a study got to ...
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While we were all looking at the Moon, the Sun received an unexpected visitor and proceeded to blow it to pieces after vaporizing it

While the vast majority of the world were staring at the Moon during the Artemis II mission, NASA filmed our Sun receiving an ...
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Authorities built a hydroelectric dam to stop flooding until they realized it was releasing millions of liters of water every second

A massive hydroelectric dam in South America was supposed to help prevent flooding in the region, but an increase in water ...
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Scientists tracked Greenland’s ice year after year until they realized it is losing an area the size of Manhattan annually

A recent study has found yet another impact of climate on the global stage. Greenland's massive ice sheet is melting more and ...
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They built a solar plant across farmland until they discovered endangered species quietly living beneath the panels including a master of disguise and a living fossil”

A massive solar power plant in Northern Texas has been monitoring how several endangered species are thriving directly underneath the solar panels.
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Scientists lowered a camera into an active volcano beneath the Pacific until they captured, for the first time, how the Earth releases its energy

Scientists have captured how the Earth releases its energy. The number of mysteries regarding the Earth is getting significantly less in recent years as technology advances. And when researchers ...
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A hydroelectric dam changed the flow of a California river until millions of fish were forced out of the water in one of the strangest evacuations ever seen

The Oroville Dam crisis changed the flow of a California river in 2017. This led to a massive evacuation of millions of fish ...