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Trump Administration Will Pay to Cancel More Wind Farms
The Trump administration will pay energy companies hundreds of millions of dollars to abandon their plans to build two wind…
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Archaeologists at Pompeii use AI to reveal the face of a victim trying to flee the Mount Vesuvius eruption
Archaeologists at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the…
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Endangered orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross public road in Indonesia: “A world first”
A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road…
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Pregnancy With Lupus Is Risky. Would She Be Able to Carry Her Baby to Term?
Fatimah Shepherd knew she was not supposed to get pregnant — not now, while her illness was acting up, and…
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Saving the Venus fly trap
The carnivorous Venus fly trap is native to the Carolinas, but its population is dwindling due to loss of habitat.…
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Targeted Hunts Were Supposed to Curb ‘Zombie Deer Disease.’ Now What?
In the middle of a spring afternoon near Lowden-Miller State Forest, Daniel Skinner poured a small pile of dried, yellow…
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40 Years After the Meltdown, War Layers Another Disaster on Chernobyl
Vines twirl through the broken windows of long-abandoned homes, where the detritus of lives interrupted by disaster are still scattered…
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60-foot octopus prowled seas as apex predator during age of dinosaurs, fossilized jaws show
The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the…
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Could an Earthly Fungus Contaminate Mars? NASA May Have Found One Hardy Enough.
NASA follows international guidelines called the Planetary Protection protocol, aimed at making sure Earth’s biology doesn’t taint celestial bodies, and…
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Trump Keeps Talking About Iran’s ‘Nuclear Dust.’ What Is It?
In recent weeks, President Trump has been talking about a substance he says is key to ending the United States’…
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