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Stranded minke whale on an Atlantic Coast beach during the unusual mortality event investigated by NOAA.

A whale as long as a city bus can race through the ocean, but NOAA’s 212 strandings reveal a hidden coastal danger

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September 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Archaeologists excavate storage pits and hearths inside the Coves del Fem rock shelter in Ulldemolins, Spain.

Archaeologists uncovered eight 8,000-year-old storage pits in Spain, but the deeper layers held an even rarer surprise, remarkably preserved traces of the last hunter-gatherers who lived there just before farming transformed the region

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September 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Illustration of mixed plastic waste undergoing a thermal treatment process developed to produce high-purity hydrogen.

A new reactor turned bottles, bags and car plastics into hydrogen, and the carbon problem stayed trapped in solid material

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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Truman Lowe's monumental Ottawa sculpture made from pine and peeled willow saplings.

Willow branches became rivers and canoes in Truman Lowe’s hands, and a Washington exhibition shows why his art still feels alive

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September 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial view of the Harborton Substation and transmission corridor beside Forest Park in Portland, Oregon.

A Portland power project could remove 376 trees from Forest Park, and the deal meant to save the grid has split conservation groups

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September 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of solar panels stretching over the Casa Blanca Canal across the Arizona desert.

Arizona covered a desert canal with 2,556 solar panels, and the first U.S. pilot is testing whether expensive shade can save water

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September 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Global view of Mars, the planet NASA plans to eventually explore with human crews.

NASA still has no year for the first human Mars landing, and the missing date reveals why the real countdown has not begun

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September 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Microscopic image of an ancient zircon grain from the Jack Hills region of Western Australia.

A zircon grain found in Western Australia’s Jack Hills is 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest known terrestrial mineral grain

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September 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

By ECONEWS
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September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Hands showing joint swelling and deformity associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

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August 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Vertical solar fence with photovoltaic panels installed along the boundary of a residential property.

It had been standing beside a backyard fence for years looking like an ordinary part of the property, but when someone finally investigated what it was doing there the answer turned out to be far stranger than expected

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August 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Living green roof covering Ford's Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford covered the roof of its enormous Rouge factory with living plants instead of conventional roofing, and years later the industrial site has become an unlikely habitat for birds above one of America’s most famous car plants

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August 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Reconstruction of Eoceras shaanxiense, an early Cambrian cephalopod with a straight chambered shell.

Scientists opened a window into life more than 500 million years ago with an unusually preserved Cambrian fossil, and one tiny anatomical detail may help explain how a major feature of modern animals first appeared

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August 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
American crocodile hatchlings emerging from their eggs at Turkey Point in Florida.

Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear plant became a refuge for American crocodiles, but its 168 miles of cooling canals left a salty problem underground

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August 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Young lions confront a massive hippo at the edge of a waterhole in Botswana.

About seven young lions surrounded a massive hippo at a Botswana waterhole and even chased it into the water, but one intimidating turn from the several-ton animal was enough to make the entire pride reconsider its plan

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August 28, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Eastern oyster attached to a set of false teeth recovered from Chesapeake Bay in 1898.

Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chapter from millions of years ago when mollusks spread across what would eventually become Chesapeake Bay

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August 27, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Adult bald eagle swimming through the water with its wings spread

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 far more unusual than the national symbol suggests 

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August 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Soviet researchers examine the tortoises carried around the Moon aboard Zond 5 in 1968.

In 1968, two Soviet steppe tortoises flew around the Moon and returned alive to Earth before Apollo 8 carried humans there

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August 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Pink dye tracer spreads across the ocean during an alkalinity enhancement experiment near Cape Cod.

Researchers released 16,500 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean near Cape Cod, the first EPA-permitted trial of its kind, and a dye tracer followed the patch for five days

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August 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Vostok Station above Lake Vostok beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

Lake Vostok lies liquid four kilometers beneath Antarctic ice at minus 3°C, not from antifreeze but from pressure lowering water’s melting point while thick ice slows heat loss and Earth’s internal energy persists

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August 21, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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