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A 661-pound wall of 1,482 magnets can deflect solar protons without power or cooling, offering a surprisingly simple solution for protecting astronauts in deep spa…

A wall of 1,482 neodymium magnets could shield astronauts from solar radiation during space travel without electricity or ...
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Beavers kept rebuilding dams in Oregon’s aging canal, turning a century-old embankment into a safety hazard engineers finally had to address

Beavers rebuilt dams in Oregon's century-old canal, forcing water managers to repeatedly remove the animals to prevent safety ...
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Workers built an Arizona solar farm to generate electricity beneath the desert sun, but tiny burrowing owls moved into the landscape and turned part of the energy pr…

Burrowing owls moved into an Arizona solar farm, where artificial tunnels became an unexpected nursery for 36 chicks.
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In 1822, villagers found a white stork alive in Germany with an African spear lodged through its neck, and the wounded bird ended up providing some of the first physic…

A stork returned to Germany with an African spear through its body, leaving remarkable evidence of migration across ...
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A pangolin collected in 1836 sat inside a museum for nearly 190 years until scientists extracted its DNA and discovered the forgotten animal belonged to a species that h…

DNA from an 1836 museum pangolin skin proves the Himalayan pangolin is its own species, aiding efforts to fight illegal ...
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America’s bald eagle looks like one of nature’s most familiar birds, but its enormous nests, surprising swimming ability and strange everyday behaviors reveal an animal …

Bald eagles can swim, build enormous nests and even sound different from the famous cry Hollywood gave them.
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A 29-year-old engineering student started mixing ordinary materials in an experiment and ended up creating something researchers believe could solve a problem engine…

A 29-year-old Argentine built a magnetic wall finish that lets people hang tools without drilling, though it remains unproven ...
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Saturn’s moon Titan has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas that look strangely familiar from space, but at temperatures near -297°F the liquid flowing across this frozen ...

Titan is not a perfect copy of Earth, however. Its largest seas cluster near the north pole, while broad equatorial regions ...
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Britain wants to build a wall across a working river with 28 turbines, hold back a 33-foot tide and generate power for 120 years, but the giant project still has not been t…

Britain's Mersey tidal barrage would use 28 turbines to nearly triple South Korea's Sihwa output, but funding remains ...
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In 1968, two Soviet steppe tortoises flew around the Moon and returned alive to Earth before Apollo 8 carried humans there

Two Soviet tortoises orbited the Moon in 1968 and returned alive, but they were the first vertebrates there, not the first ...
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Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr bred honey bees for tropical heat in 1956, and 26 swarming colonies spread across the Western Hemisphere by 1990, transforming p…

Brazil's 1956 bee-breeding project spread hybrids across the hemisphere by 1990: more defensive, but better pollinators.
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Scientists analyzed hundreds of human genomes and found DNA from two unknown ancient groups: a ghost lineage that split off 800,000 years ago, and another dating …

Ancient genomes reveal two unknown human groups, including a 'ghost' lineage that split off 800,000 years ago.