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EnergyA solar plant was built across a historic migration route used by 1,000 antelope, but they unexpectedly found another path along a highway crossed by 2,000 cars a day
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SpaceBefore humans land on Artemis IV, NASA will send another fleet equipped with cameras to scout the Moon’s surface
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Researchers studying naked mole rats discovered they had been quietly ‘negotiating’ the succession of their queen for six years
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EarthA “mummified reptile” found in Oklahoma is giving scientists a rare clue to how humans breathe and a mystery that has lasted for centuries
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EarthJapanese scientists spent 20 years reviewing deep-sea footage until a massive 60-foot squid emerged and revived legends that date back centuries
MAY 9, 2026
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MAY 9, 2026
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A golden sphere appeared two miles beneath the ocean, and DNA tests revealed it came from a giant creature living where sunlight never reaches
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One of the rarest birds on Earth survived for 10 million years until a solar power plant got in its way and left almost no room for both
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EnergyEveryone is building wind turbines, but a Texas company found another way to generate power with a green beam that shakes in even the slightest breeze
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EnergyIt looked like the perfect site for a solar plant until workers uncovered a 5,000-year-old pentagonal structure filled with Bronze Age weapons beneath the ground
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EarthTwo years ago, rivers in Alaska started turning orange, and now experts think the same strange color change is spreading across the Arctic
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Anthropologists went deep into a Ugandan jungle and found chimpanzees locked in a strange “civil war” after 24 attacks no one can fully explain
MAY 6, 2026
A geoscience student returned to the crater where the dinosaur-killing meteorite struck and uncovered a terrifying new species no one had ever seen
MAY 6, 2026
SpaceArtemis III slips to late 2027, squeezing the timeline for NASA’s first crewed moon landing since Apollo
MAY 6, 2026
TechnologyThree New Jersey cities keep waking up at 5 a.m. to mysterious “ghost music,” and now police are trying to find where it’s coming from
MAY 6, 2026
EnergyGreece’s coastal “wind harps” took over the internet as a new way to generate energy, but the full story behind them is not as perfect as it seemed
MAY 5, 2026
EarthA turquoise pit viper and a snake that can glide through the air are among the unknown species found by scientists in a hidden cave in Cambodia
MAY 5, 2026
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MAY 5, 2026
EnergyItalian engineers got tired of traditional wind turbines and built a “carousel” of kites that could generate as much energy as 2,500 windmills
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Geologists found a “time capsule” island in Alaska frozen for 20,000 years, and now they fear the entire region could eventually melt
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TechnologyIn March, hundreds of thousands of “special” KitKat bars vanished and now the company is asking the public to help track them down
MAY 4, 2026
EarthA diver entered a hidden cave in Texas expecting darkness until he stumbled into an Ice Age world where creatures from thousands of years ago still lingered
MAY 4, 2026
This library has had silent “employees” protecting its books for 300 years until you realize they’ve never been paid and never stop working
MAY 4, 2026
