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What It’s Like to Experience Polar Night in the World’s Northernmost Town
Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total ...
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Bird Nests and Eggs Reveal More Than Meets the Eye
A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the ...
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Can Lynx Be Saved in the Balkans?
A small team of local scientists are fighting rapid industrialization, misinformation and more to save Europe’s iconic cat ...
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Our Planet On the Big Screen: New Museum Exhibition Explores Ever-Changing Earth from Space and on the Ground
The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...
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Cats May Be Aware of Their Body Size, Suggests Study of Their Famously ‘Liquid’ Behavior
A scientist used at-home experiments to test whether cats hesitated when moving through increasingly shorter or narrower ...
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Minnesota Teacher’s 2,471-Pound Gourd Triumphs in Annual Pumpkin-Weighing Competition
A 2,471-pound gourd from Minnesota has triumphed at the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off . Its grower, ...
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These Frankenstein-Like Sea Creatures Can Actually Fuse Their Bodies Together
Two comb jellies can merge their digestive and nervous systems and even sync their bodily functions, according to new ...
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Shipwreck Hunters Find Lost World War II-Era Submarine That Vanished With 64 Crew Members Onboard
The HMS "Trooper" likely sank after hitting an underwater German mine off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea in 1943 ...
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How to Watch the Bright and Speedy Orionid Meteor Shower
While the Orionids, peaking early Sunday and Monday, might be hard to see because of the waning gibbous moon, these zippy ...