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A robot drilled through Antarctica’s ice shelf and discovered an underwater city the size of Orlando with 60 million nests belonging to transparent, antifreeze-blooded fish until seals turn it into a massacre
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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A 759 megawatt nuclear plant in South Carolina just won 20 more years of life, and the 2,250 acre lake built to cool it now hides bald eagles, deer, and foxes behind the fence
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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In New Jersey, three cows named Blossom, Misty, and Furry spend the day grazing among vertical solar panels before resting in their shade, and now they produce even more energy
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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A cargo ship set sail with two 123 foot steel wings bolted to its deck, and the force pulling 80,000 tons of grain across the Pacific is the same one that lifts an airplane off the ground
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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In North Carolina, America’s first major wildlife highway is taking shape with green bridges and underground tunnels that let bears, deer, and mountain lions cross safely beneath busy roads
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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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 floor of a brand new ocean
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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In Oregon, scientists expected birds to flee a massive wildfire, but instead they flew straight into the smoke, turned to face the wind and stayed until it cleared
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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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 Europe
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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In Arizona, solar panels are taking over canals and turning them into giant sources of electricity while shielding the water from the desert sun
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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Nearly 1,800 samples hauled from 3 miles beneath the ocean off New Zealand turned up a star shaped creature that baffled every expert on the ship, a coral that fits no branch anyone has drawn
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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At a Kansas zoo, keepers were stunned when a Bengal tiger that showed no signs of pregnancy suddenly gave birth to three cubs carrying a gene found in just 1 in 10,000 births
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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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 now reaching for satellites in orbit
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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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 road
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▲ 0 · Jul 16
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In Texas, Colorado, and Washington, 155 wind projects have been put on hold because the Pentagon fears their turbines could interfere with military radars and make missiles harder to detect
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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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 tastes on a plate
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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MN solar wildflowers 20x'd native bees, which pollinated neighbor soybeans
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▲ 11 · Jul 15 · 1 comment on HN
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Every home wind turbine sold in the U.S. is a chance to break free from your power company, but one Iowa man figured out how to turn it into his 401(k) plan
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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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 digger but the trailer underneath it
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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In New Orleans, a homeowner was clearing brush in her backyard when she uncovered a 1,900-year-old Roman tombstone. Even the FBI had to step in to find out how it crossed the Atlantic
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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While Americans spend their Saturdays mowing, the bumblebee in that same grass was quietly cracking a century old intelligence test, rolling a ball beneath a flower and climbing on top, and 3 in 4 of them solved a puzzle once built to measure the minds of apes
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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In California, a fast-spreading golden mussel is heading toward Lake Tahoe, where scientists fear it could turn its famous crystal-blue waters toxic green
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▲ 0 · Jul 15