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Artificial grass looked like the perfect lawn, green all year with no mowing and no watering, until you see what it slowly kills in the soil beneath it

Artificial grass cannot simply be rolled over living ground. First the real turf is stripped away. Then the soil is flattened ...
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Twelve containers arrived at a Thai port labeled as scrap metal, and what inspectors found inside is forcing the US to take back something it hoped no one would notice

Thailand seized 284 tonnes of US electronic waste falsely labeled as scrap metal at Laem Chabang port. Here's why the ...
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A 20-ton sperm whale hauled itself onto a South Carolina resort beach, and the same instrument built to catch dying stars had been listening to its kind all along

A juvenile sperm whale stranded at Hilton Head Island in May 2025. What scientists found during the necropsy raises bigger ...
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Scientists built a panel that turns seawater into drinking water with nothing but sunlight, and instead of toxic brine it hands back table salt and the metal inside you…

A University of Rochester team built laser-etched black metal panels that turn seawater into drinking water with zero toxic ...
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A houseplant millions of Americans already own barely cleans the air at all, but scientists found a way to turn it into something that rivals a machine

A Paris biotech firm rewired the common pothos plant with engineered bacteria, making one plant clean air as well as 30 ...
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It looks like a pile of sticks no one would ever buy, and millions sit in US streams right now, but scientists ran the numbers on what they are actually worth

Beaver dams look like random debris, but scientists have calculated their true dollar value in flood control, clean water and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...