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Four students in Switzerland tested sheep’s wool blankets on a glacier for a whole summer, and the first readings put the wool roughly level with the synthetic sheets …

Sheep's wool covers tested on Glacier 3000 from June 22 matched a synthetic geotextile in early readings, but the melt data ...
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Colorado’s 200-foot wildlife bridge over I-25 is being credited with a 91% drop in crashes with animals, but the state’s own study shows fences and underpasses reach…

Colorado’s Greenland wildlife overpass has a big number attached to it. The 200-foot bridge over Interstate 25, which the ...
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Italy has recorded a nearly invisible freshwater jellyfish from China at 61 sites, and the bells swimmers spot each summer are only the visible part of a life spent mostly ou…

Freshwater jellyfish from China now recorded at 61 sites in Italy, including Lake Garda; harmless to swimmers, it spends much ...
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A volcano near Antarctica keeps a lava lake about 360 feet wide alive as the southern winter ends, and when the clouds finally parted in August a satellite caught more th…

Lava lake inside Mount Michael showed up as a red heat signal in a rare clear Landsat 8 view on August 24, 2026, with a plume ...
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Indianapolis built the Emrichsville Dam on the White River in 1899 so Riverside Park could have a boating lake, and 127 years and several drownings later, crews are tear…

In 1899, Indianapolis wanted a boating lake for Riverside Park, so the city built a low-head dam across the West Fork of the ...
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Westminster Abbey’s Roman stone coffin was made for a Londoner named Valerius Amandinus in the fourth century, yet the man inside died between 987 and 1052, an…

Bones found in a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey belong to a late Saxon man, very probably an abbot, who died between ...
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BirdCast tracked 1.25 billion birds over the US on the night of October 8, 2025, and most bird migration happens after dark, where city lights can pull flocks off course

Bird migration peaked at 1.25 billion birds in flight over the US on October 8, 2025, BirdCast says. Most fly at night, above ...
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Morocco built the Noor solar complex to keep the lights on after sunset, and the World Bank says a cracked molten salt tank at its 820-foot tower caused two long o…

Noor solar complex in Morocco stores the sun's heat in molten salt, yet World Bank data show its two thermal plants ran 35% ...
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NASA tomato seeds stranded in orbit after the Challenger disaster ended up with 3.3 million students, and the plants they grew were not the mutant tomatoes many of t…

NASA tomato seeds spent nearly six years in orbit before 3.3 million students planted them, and some schools feared the space ...
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Goodbye to the solar bike path: the Netherlands paved a cycle lane with solar panels that reportedly made 9,800 kilowatt-hours in a year, and the weak spot was the surf…

Solar bike path in the Netherlands reportedly made 9,800 kWh in its first year, but its coated glass top layer crumbled and ...
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Chile is turning 2,175 miles of undersea internet cable into an earthquake sensor, and a study found it can size a quake five seconds after the first waves

Undersea internet cable network running 2,175 miles along Chile's coast is becoming an earthquake sensor, starting with 62 ...
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Satellites counted 39,619 icebergs stuck in place around Antarctica, and the small grounded icebergs that surveys usually overlook may be holding coastal sea ice tog…

Grounded icebergs: satellites mapped 39,619 stationary bergs around Antarctica, and small ones may anchor coastal sea ice ...