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We grew up thinking starfish were adorable, until scientists discovered a carnivorous species covered in ‘chocolate chips’ that bends sunlight to stay hidden

Discover how scientists uncovered a carnivorous starfish with unique light-guiding structures, reshaping our understanding of ...
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Divers went down to check on 69 offshore wind turbines off the coast of Taiwan, and the 86 species they found living in the steel had never been recorded there before

Divers surveying 69 offshore wind turbines off Taiwan found 86 fish species living on the steel foundations — none had ever ...
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More than 1,200 fossils of human ancestors lie in a stretch of East African desert that is slowly ripping apart, and the crack tearing across Kenya and Ethiopia is the early ...

Africa is splitting in two. Scientists just found the crust beneath Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than anyone knew, and a new ...
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A backyard fence has been standing there doing one job for years, and a vertical solar upgrade costing from €250 is turning property lines into power sources across Euro…

A 6-panel photovoltaic fence generates 2 kW of clean power, needs no roof and often no permit. Here's the hidden science that ...
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They mapped 52 billion solar panels over every highway on Earth, and the one creature it tricks most is something almost no driver would ever expect to see on a r…

A landmark study mapped 52 billion solar panels over the world's highways. But the creature they confuse most reveals a side ...
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At least 137 species depend on wild Pacific salmon across their life cycle, and the $324 million economists found in those rivers has nothing to do with how the fish t…

Scientists discovered that wild salmon are worth $324 million in a single Alaskan watershed — not for their flesh, but for ...
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Germany to strip a coal mine, a 31 million pound machine became the heaviest land vehicle ever built, and the ground it guts is later rebuilt into lakes and meadows

The world's largest land vehicle weighs 31 million pounds, stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, and needs only 5 people ...
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Built over an irrigation canal in India instead of farmland, a 750 meter strip of solar panels keeps 9 million liters of water from evaporating every year

In the farm country of western India, a long irrigation canal runs straight toward the horizon. Over one stretch of it sits ...
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They chained a 90 ton excavator onto a low steel trailer and crawled it down a public highway at walking pace, and the real marvel holding it all level was never the digge…

A 90-ton excavator like the Caterpillar 385C needs a small army of axles, permits, and escort cars to move — and the ...
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For years no one could explain how a gecko hangs from glass by one toe, and once engineers finally copied its foot, the glueless pad they built held a 250 pound person and is ...

A gecko can run straight up a pane of glass and hang there upside down. No glue, no suction, no claws digging in, just its bare toes on the surface. For a long time, how it managed this was a real ...
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Wind turbines were blamed for wrecking the health of 120,000 American households, and a decade of data later, the infrasound they feared left no mark, the low pulse el…

A massive study of 120,000+ US households near wind turbines found something surprising about turbine noise and human health ...
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Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence …

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result ...