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Robert-Bourassa (LG-2) reservoir in Quebec's La Grande complex, where flooding raised mercury in fish, with a forested island under a cloudy sky

In northern Quebec’s La Grande hydroelectric complex, flooding pushed mercury in fish to 2 to 8 times natural lake levels, and the Cree health board now says most local fish can be eaten safely

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October 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Artist's impression of a star engulfing a rocky world, with a blue line tracing the planet's spiral into the star

Inside the Sun, an Ege University astronomer’s models hint that our star may have swallowed a rocky world of five to ten Earth masses, and the best fit points to about 5.6 times Earth’s mass

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October 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Angrite meteorite NWA 12774 under cross-polarized light, with bright multicolored crystals in a dark groundmass

Out of the Sahara Desert, a 1-pound angrite meteorite called NWA 12774 carries crystals that grew under more than 17 kilobars of pressure, and they point to a lost world at least 1,240 miles across

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October 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Milu deer, including an antlered stag, wading and drinking in a pond at Beijing Wildlife Park in China

On the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province, 36 Milu deer escaped a flooded nature reserve in May 1998, and by the end of 2009 the escapees and their descendants numbered more than 500

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October 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Tetra Pak cartons stapled into shiny panels lining two walls of a test corner under a corrugated metal roof

At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface shrank indoors

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October 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Thermal camera of the type used to record seabird collisions, mounted on an offshore wind turbine with turbines behind it

Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 percent of recorded seabirds flew between the turbine rows

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October 20, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Mount Roraima rising above the Gran Sabana grasslands of Venezuela, its flat summit and sheer walls seen from the route that leads to it from Paraitepui

On Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, Pemón storytellers told an ethnologist in 1911 it was the stump of a tree bearing every fruit, and Brazil’s 2026 park plan names that tree

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October 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Drone view of the 2026 excavation of the Gallic mint at Corent, France, with stone foundations and diggers at work

On the Corent plateau in central France, archaeologists uncovered a Gallic mint of 5 or 6 workshops stretching more than 131 feet, and a lead disk carrying 2 coin-punch impressions matches a known Arverni stater

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October 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM
May Nyman and Doctor Stephen, co-authors of the zirconium and hafnium separation study, look at a computer screen at Oregon State University

In Corvallis, Oregon, chemists separated zirconium and hafnium in water with choline, a common food additive, reaching a separation factor of 33, and the solvent method used at two U.S. plants scores 6 to 7

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October 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Clay robber frog near Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station, where museum frogs revealed the chytrid fungus behind a decades-old die-off

Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common enough to collect tested clean

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October 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman speaks at the podium of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna

Saudi Arabia told the IAEA it has about 114 million metric tons of uranium-bearing ore near Medina, and the figure that matters most for its nuclear plans, the uranium grade, has not been released

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October 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Hundreds of hats pulled from Yellowstone hot springs and thermal areas in 2026 laid out in front of a National Park Service pickup truck

Yellowstone hot springs, geysers and boardwalks gave up more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks and over 280 hats by early September, including six Invisalign retainers and a single Uno card

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October 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Pale, finger-like stromata of the giant fungus D-rex (Dianjunus rex) attached to the roots of a dead host tree in a Yunnan forest

In China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as the dinosaurs died out

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October 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Aerial view of the 5,000-year-old artificial island in Loch Bhorgastail, with its submerged causeway and the excavation grid

An islet in Scotland’s Loch Bhorgastail is a 5,000-year-old artificial island built on a 75-foot timber platform, and hundreds of Neolithic potsherds, some holding food residue, lay around it

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October 19, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Bluebanded snapper swimming over submerged peat reefs in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago

Off Mozambique, divers surveyed three peat reefs made of forest peat up to 5,000 years old, and each held 26 to 36 kinds of small fish with no living coral

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October 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
European hedgehog in garden grass, the animal whose hedgehog poop is often mistaken for rat droppings

In gardens across Britain and Europe, a dark dropping up to 2 inches long can be hedgehog poop rather than a rat sign, and the Mammal Society says shiny insect fragments give it away

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October 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Sentinel-6 sea surface height map of the eastern Pacific on October 3, 2026, with a dark red band of high water along the equator, as NOAA weighs odds of the strongest El Niño since 1950

In the eastern Pacific, NASA satellites show seas up to 1.3 feet higher as NOAA gives the strongest El Niño since 1950 an 83 percent chance for October to December, and equatorial waters turn bluer

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October 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
KREPE-3 capsule with experimental heat shields floating inside the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

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October 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Fat Bear Week 2026 contender Chunk, bear 32, standing in Brooks River below Brooks Falls with his broken lower jaw visible

Chunk, the 2025 champion with a permanently broken jaw, lost his first match by 118,731 votes to 46,053, and Fat Bear Week 2026 went to Backpack, a 20-year-old bear whose survival park staff once doubted

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October 18, 2026 at 10:16 AM
5,000-year-old grave near Wrocław, Poland, with a green serpentinite battle ax under the man's right elbow and teeth from one of the two extra skulls above it

Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off

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October 18, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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