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Scientists built a time crystal that swirls and dances for hours without ever running out of energy

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created what they call a time crystal: a phase of matter whose parts ...
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Archaeologists discovered Pompeii had been operating in ‘emergency mode’ long before Vesuvius buried the city

Archaeologists have found that the city of Pompeii has been operating in what they describe as an "emergency mode" long ...
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Cyclists and hikers pushed back for years, and now Chuckanut Drive’s famous coastal stretch is locked at 35 mph for good

For decades, SR 11/Chuckanut Drive has drawn visitors from across the Pacific Northwest — a narrow ribbon of highway where ...
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Scientists are investigating the Great Salt Lake after mysterious red, blue, green, and pink islands suddenly began appearing across its surface

Researchers noticed strange patches of colorful "islands" on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. They now believe the lake's salt ...
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Starting in May, the days of pinching to zoom in on tiny icons could be over after a legal change forces thousands of apps to redesign their screens

The days of tiny icons and complicated menu's in apps are about to become a thing of the past as a legal change forces ...
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Frozen since the last Ice Age, a single Alpine glacier has been quietly recording 12,000 years of human history

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...
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NASA is warning of a historic snow drought in Colorado this spring caused by a rare phenomenon that may happen only once every 1,000 years

NASA environmental experts have warned that this year's snow drought in Colorado is the result of a rare phenomenon that only ...
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Researchers tracking cheetahs and lions with GPS discovered that rising heat is altering their ‘fear maps’ and pushing the predators into conflict

Researchers tracked 43 predators in Africa. Only to discover that Cheetahs and Lions' fear maps were being altered during ...
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Someone thought putting a wind turbine in the North Sea was a good idea. Now seals are swimming around it in perfect squares while death spreads through the su…

Researchers discovered that some seals were gathering around wind turbines in the North Sea. And they followed a specific ...
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This solar farm was being overrun by clover until 10 cows and their calves arrived to clear it, and now they live beneath the shade of the panels

Middle Tennessee had a problem that machines couldn’t solve. Lush clover was choking the Christiana Solar Ranch. Traditional crews were losing the battle against the rising green. The transformation ...
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This solar plant turned part of the desert green, but the new vegetation became a fire risk until animals were brought in to graze the growing ‘solar grass’

Massive solar arrays are accidentally turning barren deserts into lush, flammable grasslands. This ecological shift creates a ‘green’ paradox that threatens the infrastructure itself. Solar panels act ...