Earth & Nature: 9 of 10
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+34The weirdness of youtube's algorithm
So, do thousands of fundamentalists watch plate tectonics videos and then want to listen to hymns? WTF?
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+25Floral Time Travel: Flowers Were More Diverse 100 Million Years Ago Than They Are Today
Angiosperm flowers reached their greatest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history
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+36Humans Actually Have Secret Stripes And Other Strange Markings
Humans have invisible skin patterns, due to a quirk in how our enveloping layer forms.
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+30The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions
About 15 days of emissions from the richest American was equal to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10 percent in America, research found.
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+30Beloved Two-Headed Snake Back on Public Display at Texas Zoo After 2 Years Absence
Pancho and Lefty have two brains, and one body, and a lot of fans missed him during his two-year absence: “Come see him any time!”
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+31Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumes
Hangzhou zoo insists animals are real after video of one standing on hind legs triggers online speculation
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+29Hurricane Idalia: cash assistance and emergency relief for Florida communities hit by disaster
How CARE and its partners are providing crucial aid to communities devastated by Hurricane Idalia, the strongest storm to hit Florida in over a century.
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+30While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter
One day on Mars is about 37 minutes longer than an Earth day – but it seems both planets are working to fix the gap. Data from NASA’s InSight lander have revealed Martian days are getting ever so slightly shorter, and scientists aren’t sure why.
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+32Ancient Trilobites Had Crystal Eyes, And They're Still a Mystery
Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.
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+19The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can't Even Imagine
When you view the world a certain way, it's easy to forget not everyone has the same vision.
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+31Decolonising Fire Science
We can expect that the science of fire should intersect with fire use by First Peoples, because an understanding of fire that enabled cultures to coexist with it for at least 65,000 years must have its roots in scientific reality. Our understanding of that relationship is, however, deeply troubled.
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+29Disasters are moving to new places faster than we’re keeping up with them
The range of possible disasters is growing for communities across America.
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+29Heat Is Not a Metaphor
As the hottest summer on record draws to a close, how do we make sense of the images of a climate in crisis?
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+29July 2023 was the hottest month on Earth since at least 1880 'by a longshot,' NASA says
"A year like this gives us a glimpse at how rising temperatures and heavier rains can impact our society and stress critical infrastructure over the next decade."
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+29'I only have 1 dog:' Shocked California homeowner spots mountain lion 'playing' with pet
Home security footage shows a family dog chasing a mountain lion in the northern California community of Morada.
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+30Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.
A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.
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+35Bison calf euthanized after a Yellowstone visitor lifted it out of a river, causing the herd to reject it
An unidentified man picked up the bison calf after it was separated from its mother as the herd crossed the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park.
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+342,000 years before 'manscaping' and smooth armpits, the Romans were seriously into hair removal, archaeological findings show
An English Heritage site found over 50 tweezers during a dig in Wroxeter, England, highlighting the Romans' obsession with "manscaping."
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+29July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth
People are being exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events, the Copernicus Climate Change Service has warned.
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+31Did the Romans hunt WHALES?
Ancient bones at a fish processing factory reveal the civilisation may have caused the beasts to go extinct in the Mediterranean 2,000 years ago




















