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Scientists dropped just two brown anole lizards on each of several storm-swept Bahamian islands, and years later their descendants revealed something natural sele…

Brown anole populations founded by just 2 lizards on 7 Bahamian islands evolved shorter hindlimbs within 4 years, yet founder ...
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Scientists have finally seen inside living Antarctic fish cells at nearly 32°F, and the tiny energy factories inside them are far busier than anyone assumed

Antarctic fish cells imaged alive near 32°F show busy, linked mitochondria and enlarged lysosomes, clues to how polar fish ...
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Divers went down into Slovakia’s Morské Oko, a lake about 82 feet deep that most people only see from the shoreline, and what was waiting beneath its quiet surface …

Slovakia’s Morské Oko, a lake up to 82 feet deep, hid a drone, an old trap and a sunken boat, divers found, along with ...
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A sperm whale about 59 feet long could swallow a person, experts say, and what would wait inside its stomach leaves no realistic room for escape

Sperm whale anatomy means a male about 59 feet long could swallow a person, experts say, but no case is documented and its ...
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An Egyptian mummy whose braids survived thousands of years left Egypt in 1860, and a CT scan has now revealed what embalmers left inside her body

Egyptian mummy known as the Braided Lady, taken from Egypt in 1860, reveals preserved organs, worn teeth and clues to her ...
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Amazon will fund the development of 12 small nuclear reactors on the site of a former coal plant on Indiana’s Wabash River, 960 megawatts in all, but no decision t…

A former coal plant on the banks of Indiana’s Wabash River could one day hold a dozen nuclear reactors. On October 19, Amazon ...
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Shells left after a seafood dinner can become a gel for zinc batteries that lasted more than 1,000 cycles, and the most surprising part is what happened to it in soil

Zinc batteries could use a gel made from crab and shrimp shells that ran beyond 1,000 lab cycles and broke down in soil ...
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Scientists hauling nets across the Barents Sea have counted 304 species, including slow-growing sponges that may be older than anyone on board, and what worries t…

Barents Sea survey nets 304 species and possibly century-old sponges, while scarce capelin raises concerns for cod, seals, ...
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Centuries-old human waste buried beneath Dutch cities is revealing what families cooked for 350 years, and the real dinner was not the potato-and-meat plate every…

Centuries-old human waste from 51 Dutch cities shows families ate grains, cabbage, parsnips and fruit for 350 years, mostly ...
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The Pacific is heating up and El Niño could become one of the strongest in modern records, and what worries aid agencies most is what it could mean for 49 million pe…

El Niño is strengthening fast, with NOAA putting the odds of strong to very strong conditions lasting into early 2027 above ...
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Earth’s balance point is being pulled toward South America by 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain every April, and NASA has found the seasonal swing is smaller than ...

Earth’s balance point moves a few millimeters each season as snow and 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain shift, about ...
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A boy in New Jersey started collecting used batteries after seeing a battery fire at a waste facility on TV, and his nonprofit now says it has recycled 900,000, but even a ...

Used batteries: a New Jersey nonprofit started by a 10-year-old reports 900,000 recycled via school bins, and why even a dead ...