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Northrop Grumman Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle gliding through blue water

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray underwater drone for DARPA fits into five shipping containers, glides by pumping seawater, and can anchor to the ocean floor to “hibernate” and save energy

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September 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Brown and white mouse sitting on a white background

A drug first developed for spinal cord injuries reduced DNA damage and brain inflammation in mice with Alzheimer’s, and because it already passed a safety trial in 109 people, researchers believe it could reach patients faster

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September 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Prairie rattlesnake coiled among grass, yellow flowers and white rocks

Researchers tracking prairie rattlesnakes in Wyoming kept finding “piles” of snakes shedding their skin together, a behavior never documented before in this species

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September 19, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Fossil bone next to the 1985 field notebook from an Antarctic expedition

A fossil collected in Antarctica in 1985 sat in a museum drawer for 40 years labeled as a marine reptile, until scientists took another look and discovered the four-inch bone belonged to a 20-foot titanosaur that lived roughly 82 million years ago

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September 19, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Three archive photos showing eroded bare hills in Pohang, South Korea, gradually covered by vegetation after reforestation

South Korea planted more than 10 billion trees after the Korean War, and by 2020 its forests held 29 times more wood per hectare than in 1953, but the real secret was checking which seedlings survived

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September 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Entrance to the Goyet Caves in Belgium, a limestone cave with a metal gate

Ancient DNA from Belgium and France suggests Europe’s last Neanderthals were not isolated, inbred groups slowly dying out, and none of their genomes show recent modern human ancestry even though our species had already arrived in the region

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September 18, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Thousands of bats flying out of a rocky cave entrance into the sky

Texas ranchers sued to stop 46 wind turbines near the Devils River, conservationists worry about a cave once home to 250,000 bats, and a study shows a simple change could cut bat deaths by 62%

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September 18, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Steel-lined bypass tunnel of the Delaware Aqueduct under construction beneath the Hudson River

A 1,350-ton machine named Nora dug a 2.5-mile tunnel 600 feet beneath the Hudson River to bypass a leak that can lose up to 35 million gallons of water a day, but New York may not connect it until 2031

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September 17, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle Pancake crawling on the sand at Coney Island before its release

An 11-pound endangered sea turtle named Pancake was found cold-stunned on a Cape Cod beach, spent seven months eating shrimp and clams in rehab, and returned to the Atlantic at Coney Island carrying a satellite tag

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September 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Rows of floating solar panels on a reservoir near London

More than 23,000 solar panels have floated on a reservoir outside London since 2016, generating enough electricity for roughly 1,800 homes while using less than 10% of the water’s surface, and research suggests the shade beneath them could also reduce evaporation

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September 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Brown and white husky standing on top of a shelter kennel at Richmond Animal Care and Control

They thought this husky was inside her cage until they looked up and discovered her “escape plan”

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September 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Hand lifting a piece of artificial turf during heavy rain, with water running off the plastic lawn

Natural grass acts like a “sponge,” while artificial turf can repel up to 58% of the water

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September 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands beside the American flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969

In 1976, a NASA intern bought 1,150 videotapes for $218, and three of them turned out to hold Apollo 11 Moon walk footage that sold for $1.82 million

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September 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Dentist applying a liquid treatment to a young child's teeth with a small brush

A U.S. clinical trial tested a liquid painted onto toddlers’ cavities for just 10 seconds without drilling, injections or sedation, and six months later it had stopped 54% of the treated decay, although the damaged part of the tooth permanently turned black

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September 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Aerial view of shallow waterways, rocky islets, and wetlands in Finland’s Kvarken Archipelago

Finland is still rising from the sea more than 10,000 years after the last ice age, exposing roughly 1,730 acres of new land each year, but homeowners may discover that the new ground appearing beyond their waterfront property legally belongs to someone else

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September 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Concept rendering of Radia’s WindRunner cargo aircraft loading a giant wind turbine blade at night

Radia is designing a 356-foot cargo plane with a 261-foot wingspan to carry 344-foot wind turbine blades where trucks cannot go, then land on a 6,000-foot dirt runway built beside the wind farm instead of a conventional airport

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September 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Solitary wasp among nesting tubes in a bee hotel.

Bee hotels were supposed to help pollinators, but a Toronto experiment found wasps were checking in first

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September 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Hand holding fossil jaw and teeth of Masripithecus moghraensis found in Egypt

Scientists found the jaw and teeth of an unknown ape that lived in Egypt 17 to 18 million years ago, and its unexpected place near the roots of living apes is challenging the long-held focus on East Africa in the search for our ancient evolutionary family

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September 14, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The full SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy stack standing beside the launch tower at Starbase under a pink and orange sunset sky

Starship flew for the 13th time with a clean splashdown, but the Mars test that matters most still has not happened

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September 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
A tan pug mother lying on a pink paw-print blanket while her two black-and-white spotted puppies nurse beside her

A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent

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September 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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