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World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing Is Set To Open Next Month – Camera Traps Just Caught Its First Visitors

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a vegetated overpass that crosses a busy 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, California, ...
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Ireland Began Fluoridating Its Water In 1964. A New Study Investigates Whether It Affected People's Cognitive Health

Tracking people's exposure to fluoridated water over the years, the team then set them two cognitive tests and compared the ...
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After "Explosive Diarrhea" Summer, People Are Worried What The Holidays Might Bring. Here’s How To Eat Safe This Holiday Season

This year has been a big one for outbreaks, with the limey allure of Brat Summer swapped out for a queasier shade of ...
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Earth's Simulation From The Past Into Its Future Seen As Key To Finding Habitable Worlds In The Galaxy

“If we can create a model that recreates Earth with some fidelity, then we can try to apply it to simulating the exoplanets ...
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15,000-Year-Old Clay Figurines May Have Been Made By Kids As A Way Of Learning About The World

Researchers have discovered 15 recognizable clay figurines at three Natufian sites in the Middle East, dated to around 15,000 ...
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“Dinosaur Blood” Has Hit The Headlines Again. But Could It Ever Really Be Found, And What Would We Actually Do With It?

It revealed heme signatures in mineralized red blood cells within vascular canals, providing strong evidence that original ...
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2026 “Virtually Certain” To Be Warmest Or Second-Warmest Year On Record – With 2027 Expected To Be Even Hotter

Three major global temperature analyses agree with a high likelihood that 2026 will be the hottest or second-hottest year on record, and that it will most probably also be the second-ever year to pass ...
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The Taung Child, The First Hard Proof Humans Originated In Africa, Is Even Older Than We Thought

The juvenile's skull was unearthed in 1924 by Australian anthropologist Raymond Dart at a limestone quarry near the village of Taung in South Africa. It's small, no larger than the skull of a young ...
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Exceptionally Preserved Fossil Owl May Have Told Us When These Silent Hunters Became Nocturnal

The owl's unfortunate demise in a stagnant lake means evidence of its last meal has survived through the ages.
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In 2011, Sonar Detected Mysterious Circles On The Seafloor Off Of Corsica. Over 1,300 Of Them, In Fact, All Shaped Like Giant Fried Eggs

In time, they found over 1,300 of these circles on a concentrated stretch of the seabed several miles across. Their source of ...