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US landfills received about 10.5 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018, and naturalists say the fall leaves many people bag and throw away are winter shelter fo…

US landfills took 10.5 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018, says the EPA. Seven ways to use leaves and shelter fireflies ...
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A 15-year-old in Canada built a body heat flashlight with no batteries, big companies tried to license it for 8 years, and the reason she passed is not what you would expect

In 2013, 15-year-old Canadian Ann Makosinski won her age category at the Google Science Fair with a body heat flashlight. The ...
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Gentoo penguins were long treated as a single species, and genomes have now split them into four, including a look-alike on remote Indian Ocean islands that had neve…

Gentoo penguins are four species, not one: 64 genomes reveal a look-alike on Kerguelen, and three could lose much of their ...
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A jazz guitarist who sweeps city rooftops for micrometeorites with a magnet handed scientists three specks of space dust, and in the lab they helped grow cell-like bubbl…

Micrometeorites from 3 Oslo rooftops helped scientists grow cell-like lipid bubbles in the lab, a Scientific Reports study ...
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Two Sumatran rhinos at an Indonesian sanctuary are pregnant at the same time, with fewer than 50 left in the wild, and one of the mothers was born there herself

Sumatran rhinos Ratu and Delilah are both pregnant at Way Kambas and due in May 2027, while fewer than 50 of the species ...
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Some children growing up around England’s medieval lead mining nearly 1,400 years ago absorbed as much lead as kids in Industrial Revolution cities, and the people bu…

Medieval lead mining in the Peak District left some children with lead levels like Industrial Revolution cities by the ...
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Museum workers dug up a reptile’s bones beside a road in southern France in 1997, and they turn out to belong to a freshwater mosasaur whose bones were too heavy …

Freshwater mosasaur Garamaudo bauciensis, about 8.2 feet long, lived in a French lake 84 million years ago with leglike limbs ...
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The Humongous Fungus has quietly spread through 2,385 acres of Oregon forest soil, and the honey mushrooms it pushes up each fall barely hint at the tree-killer hiding …

Humongous Fungus: one honey fungus under Oregon's Malheur National Forest covers 2,385 acres and may be up to 8,650 years old ...
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Astronomers found the youngest exoplanet detected so far hiding in old telescope images, a giant world less than 1 million years old, and it grew faster than planet-for…

Youngest exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is under 1 million years old, and astronomers confirmed it in archived Keck images from 2018 ...
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A foal buried beside coyotes in Wyoming shows Indigenous peoples were raising horses decades before the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and a healed fracture in its skull sug…

Raising horses on the Plains began by the early 1600s, decades before 1680, says a study of 33 specimens, including a Wyoming ...
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A Cape Cod town sank about 1,500 bundles of old car tires to build an artificial reef, and decades later divers found the most fish where the tires were thickest

Artificial reef off Cape Cod: about 1,500 tire bundles went down in 1978, and divers later counted the most fish where the ...
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Tens of millions of bison once roamed North America and fewer than 1,000 were left by the 1890s, while Yellowstone’s herd fell to about two dozen animals before growing back ...

Bison fell from tens of millions to fewer than 1,000 by the 1890s. Yellowstone's herd, down to about 24 in 1902, reached nearly 5,300 in 2025.