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Stockman on horseback mustering cattle across dry grassland in Australia

The world’s largest working cattle station spans about 6,080 square miles and holds 17,000 cattle, yet its headquarters runs mainly on just 49 kW of rooftop solar and batteries, with careful planning essential because forgetting one critical part can mean a 1,120-mile round trip

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September 24, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Tail flukes of a humpback whale diving below the ocean surface

A juvenile humpback whale in Alaska was trapped by two 800-pound crab pots anchored to the seafloor, and after five hours rescuers made four carefully placed cuts that freed the animal to swim away, although a piece of rope remained threaded through its mouth

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September 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Pigeon perched on the edge of a house roof

Phoenix homeowners are discovering that the shaded gap beneath rooftop solar panels can become a nesting spot for pigeons, and experts say a simple mesh barrier may work better than ultrasonic gadgets while protecting airflow and keeping droppings from reducing solar output

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September 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
A beaver dam of branches and mud holding back a wide pond at the edge of a wood

Two beavers released in Dorset built a 115-foot dam in a single year and turned a shaded wood into a wetland where an otter fishes and a barn owl hunts, and the dam is still holding water through the drought

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September 23, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Fossil hominin skull from Dmanisi on display at the National Museum of Georgia

Scientists compared 87 human skulls spanning multiple Homo lineages and found that our bigger brains and smaller faces may not have emerged through a steady evolutionary push, but through long periods of anatomical stability interrupted when biological and environmental constraints finally loosened

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September 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Bowhead whale surfacing among sea ice in the Arctic

Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years despite weighing up to 200,000 pounds, and scientists found their cells repair dangerous DNA breaks unusually well, with one protein even improving DNA repair in human cells and extending lifespan in fruit flies

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September 22, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Muttsee dam wall high in the Swiss Alps above a mountain lake

Engineers hung 4,872 solar panels on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level while leaving a five-foot corridor behind them for inspections, and the first measured year showed the mountain installation produced 43% of its electricity during the winter half of the year

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September 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Row of wooden beehives standing in an open grassy field

An Ohio solar farm now shares its 196-megawatt site with more than 50 beehives and nearly 3 million honey bees, turning land around the panels into pollinator habitat while veteran beekeepers use the project to train other veterans and first responders in caring for colonies

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September 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Geodesic Cinerama Dome theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome closed during the pandemic in 2020, but Sony is now restoring the 1963 landmark built from 316 interlocking concrete panels and plans to reopen it in early 2028 with its famous curved screen and midcentury character intact

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September 22, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Floating offshore wind turbine prototype anchored off the coast of Portugal

California approved $3 million to turn the mooring lines of floating wind turbines into underwater “nervous systems” that could listen for whale calls, detect snagged fishing gear and monitor structural strain along more than half a mile of cable

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September 22, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Lava and ash cloud from the La Palma volcano at night above the town lights

Scientists recreated magma from La Palma’s 2021 Tajogaite eruption and found that extreme heating could delay crystal formation from about 20 minutes to more than eight hours, keeping the magma fluid for longer and potentially helping produce towering lava fountains

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September 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings crawling across the sand

Homeowners in the Florida Keys looked into their backyard swimming pool and found 64 baby sea turtles trapped in the chlorinated water after artificial lights led them away from the ocean, but every hatchling survived treatment and was later released into the Gulf Stream

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September 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Blue and yellow ribbon eel emerging from the reef

An underwater photographer in Mauritius spotted a ribbon eel outside the sandy burrow where these reef predators usually hide, capturing the blue-and-yellow fish swimming like a “silk scarf” and revealing the flowing body that divers rarely get to see in the open

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September 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Children using tablet computers in a classroom

Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years expecting more screen time to signal weaker thinking skills, but by age 15 those reporting greater use actually showed better overall cognitive performance, although the study could not prove screens caused the difference

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September 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Australian magpie perched on a branch in Sydney

Researchers fitted five Australian magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but within an hour the birds began helping one another remove the harnesses, turning a failed tracking experiment into an unexpected observation of cooperation and problem-solving

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September 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant cooling tower beside the Columbia River in Oregon

In 1999, workers filled a 42-foot nuclear reactor vessel with 200 tons of concrete and moved the 1,020-ton package 300 miles by barge and a 320-wheel trailer, but 791 spent fuel assemblies from the same Oregon plant are still waiting in storage today

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September 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
People cycling along a canal street in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt

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September 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Three tall men walking together on a street in Amsterdam with Dutch canal houses behind them

Dutch men grew about 20 centimeters in 150 years, going from among Europe’s shortest to its tallest, and a simulation shows natural selection explains less than half a centimeter of that change

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September 20, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Microscopy images of epithelial tissue showing keratin networks and cell nuclei

Scientists stretched living tissue for hours and watched its internal keratin scaffolding rebuild itself into thick networks spanning multiple cells, but the strangest part came when the same process gradually pushed the nuclei out of the protective cages surrounding them

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September 20, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Brown and white dog with a collar sitting on the floor of a store aisle

A dog with a pink collar wandered alone into a Dollar Tree, and employees soon noticed something wasn’t right when he started bumping into the shelves

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September 19, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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