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12-14-2025
Sea cows have maintained seagrass meadows for over 20 million years
In the desert of Qatar, scientists uncovered a fossil graveyard...
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12-14-2025
Rare 'supershear' earthquakes that could devastate California
Most people in California expect big earthquakes, but there is...
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12-14-2025
Solar tech that generates 15x more energy has potential to revolutionize green energy
A new thermoelectric device boosts the electricity generation capability of...
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12-14-2025
When neighborhood pets refuse to drink tap water, take immediate precautions
The drinking water in New Freeport, Pennsylvania, changed suddenly when...
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12-14-2025
New pumpkin toadlet discovered in the mountains is the size of a pencil tip
Researchers have recently described a new bright-orange pumpkin toadlet, Brachycephalus...
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12-14-2025
Hundreds of silver coins from the 11th century found buried in a forest
Forestry work in a quiet German woodland has brought a...
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12-14-2025
New sodium battery promises more than 5,000 hours of useful life
Engineers in Australia have built a sodium battery that keeps...
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12-14-2025
Earth's oceans have officially crossed another crucial planetary boundary
The world's ocean has moved past a chemical safety line...
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12-14-2025
Human footprints, parallel tracks, and a 22,000-year-old mystery
At White Sands National Park in New Mexico, drag marks...
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12-14-2025
Huge tunnels discovered that were not made by humans or geology
Deep under the hills of southern Brazil and northern Argentina,...
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12-14-2025
Uranus and Neptune may be rock giants, not ice giants
New computer models of Uranus and Neptune suggest these distant...
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12-14-2025
Our brain processes speech in layers, much like AI language models
The brain’s timing during speech comprehension matches the stepwise layers...
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