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In northwestern Madagascar’s Sambirano River region, a DNA study of 70 samples found a baobab species demoted to a variety in 1952 is distinct after all, and its aut…

Baobab species Adansonia bozy, named in 1910 and demoted in 1952, is back: DNA from 70 samples gives Madagascar seven endemic ...
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Workers digging a kitchen foundation in Massachusetts found the Marblehead Hoard, 82 gold and silver coins from nine countries, and its top piece, a 1764 Mexic…

Marblehead Hoard: workers digging a kitchen foundation found 82 gold and silver coins dated 1726 to 1814, led by a 1764 ...
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NASA is targeting summer 2027 for Artemis III, a 14-day test flight in low Earth orbit with two commercial landers, and Administrator Jared Isaacman expects astronauts …

Artemis III will test SpaceX and Blue Origin landers in Earth orbit in summer 2027, a 14-day mission before NASA's 2028 Moon ...
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Bill and Shane Kellogg spent a decade opening their 5,000-acre Ohio farm to water quality research in the Lake Erie basin, and now their Hardin County family has won …

Ohio's Kellogg family won in 2026 after 10 years as a Lake Erie demo farm and using about 40% less fertilizer in strips.
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53 fish species turned up around retired army tanks and train cars that Thailand sank off Narathiwat in 2010, and a diver found the biggest schools only around the tanks

Retired army tanks sunk off Narathiwat, Thailand, in 2010 drew 53 fish species, and the biggest snapper schools gathered only ...
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Dust buried more than 2,300 feet down in an Antarctic ice core grew new iron minerals inside the ice, and its researchers say the same chemistry could explain wh…

Martian dust may get its red, magnetic look from ice: dust buried over 2,300 feet deep in an Antarctic core grew new iron ...
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Slovak cavers say they mapped 10 miles of the quartzite cave Ojos de Cristal on Venezuela’s Mount Roraima, and up to 84 percent of its deep bacteria belonged to …

Quartzite cave Ojos de Cristal on Mount Roraima runs 10 miles (16.14 km) by a Slovak count, and up to 84% of its deep ...
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Great Zimbabwe’s residents turned old clay quarries below the Hill Complex into reservoirs that could hold at least 4.9 million gallons of water, and nearby clans still ...

Great Zimbabwe stored water in dhaka pits that could hold 4.9 million gallons, says a University of Pretoria-led study. Clans ...
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Two University of Alberta physicists traced millisecond swings in Earth’s length of day to the inner core’s gravitational tug on the mantle, and their model suggests the ...

Earth's length of day swings a few milliseconds over 60 to 70 years, and a 2026 Nature study ties it to the inner core's gravitational pull on the mantle ...
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A $10 million NOAA project is laying stone for more than 70 acres of Chesapeake Bay oyster reef habitat in Maryland’s Hooper Strait, and partners aim to restore or conse…

Chesapeake Bay oyster reef: a $10 million NOAA grant is building more than 70 acres at Maryland's Hooper Strait, with stone ...
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More than 750 nesting boxes for native birds have come from a Coppell, Texas, teenager who lost his pet cockatiel, he says, and his Backyard Bird Project has grow…

Points of Light counts nearly 64 bird box events over six years, in person and online. His tally of boxes is his own. “I’ve ...
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Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they …

Rammed earth walls keep a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, warm with no fireplace, and its owners say their ...