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Researcher uses a laptop in a grassy field while a utility vehicle and equipment sit in the background

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

By Adrian Villellas

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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Workers in protective suits stand in a flooded facility, using tools to clean up standing water after a coastal flood or storm surge.

A national map identifies 5,500 “hot spots” along the US coastline, and the danger is not the water itself, but what the water can carry with it

By Adrian Villellas

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January 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A transit stop with a green sculptural structure and a modular terracotta cooling brick shown in an inset, designed to cool air during heatwaves.

The brick that promises to cool down a bus stop in the middle of a heatwave without plugs and with a trick so simple it’s surprising

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January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Two workers walk beside a massive pile of used tires repurposed for rubber-modified asphalt roads

Mountains of tires become “black gold” for roads: rubber-coated asphalt promises greater durability and less noise, but raises environmental concerns

By Adrian Villellas

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January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM

Aerial view of sand-filled artificial islands linked by a narrow causeway, built by dredging in the South China Sea.

China has managed to build entirely new islands from scratch by pumping sand from the seabed day after day for more than a decade

By Adrian Villellas

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January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM

A towering ocean wave rises in the foreground with snow-covered mountains in the background, illustrating extreme wave energy near cold coasts.

The highest waves ever recorded did not originate in the open sea, and the reason for this surprises even scientists

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January 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM

China’s Fendouzhe crewed submersible is lowered into icy Arctic waters, equipped with cameras and sampling gear for deep-sea research.

China takes a manned submersible to the “forbidden ground” 5,277 meters below the Arctic, and what it records on the Gakkel Ridge could change maps and theories

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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Satellite view of a powerful Pacific storm aimed at the U.S. West Coast, with thick cloud bands signaling heavy mountain snow.

Alert for “paralyzing storm” this weekend: up to 60 inches of snow, near-zero visibility, and widespread power outages

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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 AM

A large cylindrical naval nuclear reactor component is being lifted inside a shipyard work area during maintenance or removal.

The United States is considering an idea that was previously unthinkable: using old military nuclear reactors to power artificial intelligence data centers

By Adrian Villellas

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January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Wide aerial view of a vast solar farm with thousands of blue panels arranged in rows across open grassland under a bright sky.

In the middle of the Tibetan desert, China’s largest solar park is doing something unexpected that goes far beyond producing electricity

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January 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Boater watches a large floating mat of brown sargassum at sea, with an inset close-up showing the seaweed that forms the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

Something huge and brown is crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America, and satellites can no longer ignore it

By Adrian Villellas

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January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Polar bear standing on a dead sperm whale carcass amid broken Arctic sea ice near Svalbard.

The impossible photo from the Arctic: a polar bear is captured “riding” on a huge whale in the middle of an ice labyrinth, and no one knows how that body got there yet

By Adrian Villellas

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January 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

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January 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM

Global temperature anomaly map showing widespread warming that amplifies European heat-wave impacts in today’s climate.

It is not a prediction for 2100; it is a “rewind” of five actual heat waves, and the result in today’s climate is much worse than you remember

By Adrian Villellas

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January 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM

Mechanic holding gold bars discovered inside an old Iraqi Army Type 69 tank purchased online

A mechanic bought an old Iraqi tank online, and when he reached inside it, he found $2.4 million worth of gold bars hidden inside

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January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM

An hourglass floating in front of Earth, symbolizing how climate change is affecting the planet’s rotation and global timekeeping.

Climate change is now tugging on the world’s clocks

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January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM

Record 64.8-gram gold nugget found in England’s Shropshire Hills after a faulty metal detector prompted a backup.

Faulty metal detector leads to record gold nugget find in England’s Shropshire Hills

By Adrian Villellas

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January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM

Earth at night with city lights across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, seen from space.

Goodbye to truly dark nights on Earth: a California startup wants to deploy 4,000 mirrors in space, and astronomers are already on alert

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM

Towering open-ocean wave with windblown spray, part of the North Pacific megastorm swell measured at up to 115 feet.

Satellites capture a mega-storm in the North Pacific that produced giant waves up to 115 feet high that traveled nearly 15,000 miles

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Wolf supermoon behind a bare tree as meteor streaks cross the night sky during the Quadrantid shower

The Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its brief peak tonight, and the Wolf supermoon may make it difficult to catch

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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