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Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out more sustainable ways to manage waste

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The Biggest Volcano in The Solar System May Once Have Been an Island

Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years

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Elon Musk takes @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

Invisible supernovas called ‘bosenovas’ may be exploding all around us, new research suggests

Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape During the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back

‘Wait, am I the fool here?’: why our fears of being scammed are corrosive and damaging

Helsinki 1952: Summer Olympics at the height of the Cold War

Bizarre Australian ant honey, used in Indigenous medicine, inspires powerful new antibiotics

When Ancient Eruptions Pumped Diamonds to Earth’s Surface

‘Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down’

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state [Sparta] is based on bad history

On this day in 1959 Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin rode the thunder

The Greatest Scam Ever Written

Evidence the universe might not be expanding

Where Is the Sunniest Spot on Earth? – Scientists Discovered It

World’s 1st ‘boomerang meteorite’ — a rock that left Earth, spent millennia in space, then returned — possibly discovered in the Sahara Desert

Nasa briefly loses contact with ISS after power outage and relies on backup systems for first time

How Absolute Space and Sense of Direction Affect Different Languages

Ancient interloper star may have helped kickstart life on Earth

The Master Camouflage of the Dead Leaf Butterfly

How baby planets are made: Planetary precursors revealed in stunning new space image

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A Squishy Sea Creature Regenerates a Body from a Severed Head

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How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions

New study shows how extreme fish survive with antifreeze in their blood

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A bookkeeper stole $7.6 million from her employer. How did no one notice?

A Transformative Moment in the History of Fishing: On Catching the Largest Tuna Ever Recorded

Barbie’s surprising role in Moon exploration

A Hidden Line Deep in The Ocean Divides Animals Into Two Camps

There Could be Trillions of Rogue Planets Wandering the Milky Way

Ancient Human Burials Featured in Netflix Doc Spark a Scientific Controversy

Light pollution is the easiest pollution to fix — so why aren’t we doing it?

Mystery of Crusader’s Sword Found at Bottom of Sea Finally Solved

This Mess of Boulders Was Deposited by an Ancient River on Mars

After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results

How does light slow down?

The Shiniest Planet Has Clouds of Metal and Glass

These ultra-detailed images show exactly what’s living in your gut – and it’s surprisingly beautiful

Why are some people so competitive? The psychology of competitiveness

40 years ago, the US started sending more and more kids to prison without hope of release, but today, it’s far more rare – what happened?

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal

Push-button flying car now authorized by both FAA and DMV

Weary Soldiers, Unreliable Munitions: Ukraine’s Many Challenges

Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios

Elephants that once threatened Rome could help save their descendants

The Catfished Terrorist

A Small-Town Paper Lands a Very Big Story

The ‘Immortal Jellyfish’ Can Age in Reverse And Possibly Live Forever

Boomerang meteorite may be the 1st space rock to leave Earth and return

When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future

No-kill chicken tastes like chicken. Because it is.

Mammalian Anomaly: The Secret Armor of African Spiny Mice

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