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- Ethiopia is tearing toward a new ocean, and geologists explain how the rift is pulling the crust apart millimeter by millimeter until the map of East Africa changes
- A chick experiment strengthens the bouba-kiki effect, and the surprise is that a biological root of language may start long before words
- Portugal moves about 2.2 million U.S. tons of sand in a mega-operation to save about 121 feet of Algarve beaches, and the plan shows the real cost of holding a coastline when the sea won’t negotiate
- Not gold, not oil: sand, the world’s second-most used resource, is being consumed at 50 billion tons a year, and shortages are already pointing toward a global crunch
- NASA satellites built to study weather are now being used to pinpoint GPS jammers, and the twist is that two separate satellite systems reportedly located a mysterious jammer in Iran to within just a few miles
- Trump pushes a “Golden Dome” plan to take missile defense into space, and the proposal reignites tensions with China and Russia while colliding with brutal physics and cost limits
- An offshore wind farm in Portugal became a haven for octopuses and 270 other species in just eight years, a data point that reframes how energy and ocean life can coexist
- A metal detector hobbyist finds 15,000 Roman coins in a field, and the hoard triggers the obvious question: who hid that much wealth and never came back?
