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Sep 13, 2024

Scientists Say Food We Eat Can Be Toilet for Flies

Flies, just like nearly every other creature, vomit. They poop, too. And yes, whenever they land on your food, they do both.
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Sep 13, 2024

Billionaire Leads Earth's First Commercially-Funded Spacewalk

A billionaire and an engineer on Thursday became the first non-government astronauts to conduct a spacewalk. The mission was one of the riskiest yet for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Sep 13, 2024

Powerful Storms Francine, Yagi Leave Wakes of Destruction

Hurricane Francine slammed into coastal Louisiana late Wednesday. The storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and flooded parts of New Orleans. It has also forced some daring rescues. Francine battered the southern US as recovery efforts from deadly Typhoon Yagi continued a half a world away in Vietnam.
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Sep 11, 2024

An Expensive Effect of Climate Change: Heavier Hail

Many people might guess that the most damaging weather events in the US in 2024 were hurricanes, floods, or tornadoes. They’d be wrong, though. Nothing creates more costly damage than hailstorms. And thanks to climate change, they’re only going to get worse.
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Sep 10, 2024

Dozens Dead, Hundreds Injured After Typhoon Yagi Pummels Vietnam

Dozens of people are dead and hundreds injured after Typhoon Yagi ripped through northern Vietnam over the weekend. The storm led to the evacuation of 50,000 people and caused heavy damage, state media reported. Leaders said it was the worst storm to hit the country in at least 30 years.
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Sep 9, 2024

Volvo Pumps Brakes on Electric Future As EV Demand Slows

The worldwide race to produce electric vehicles (EV) is slowing. Another major carmaker, Volvo, announced last week that it was changing its plan to produce only EVs by 2030. Instead, the Swedish company said it was hoping for 90% to be EVs while 10% of its vehicles could be “mild hybrids” by that time.
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Sep 6, 2024

Phoenix Breaks Record With 100th Straight Day of 100-Degree Temps

In Phoenix, residents haven’t lived through an under-100 degree day in more than as many days. That’s a record.
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Sep 3, 2024

Ocean Plastic Pollution Shuttles Invasive Species to Antarctica

There is no ecosystem on Earth immune to the threat of invasive species. They can even reach the frigid ice and stone fields of Antarctica. But the 5,500,000 square miles of glacial vistas at the world’s southernmost point have likely faced a barrage in recent years of foreign species. They are, a new study shows, hitching rides on plastic.
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Aug 30, 2024

Swiss Scientists Engineer New Way of Creating Chocolate

Switzerland is a country famous for its cocoa creations. Now, a Swiss team of food scientists has invented a new method of making chocolate. It has candy makers and conservationists drooling with joy. That’s because it uses the whole cocoa fruit to produce chocolate’s trademark sweetness, rather than sugar from other sources.
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Aug 30, 2024

LEGO Blocks Will All Be Made of Renewable Plastic by 2032, Company Says

LEGO is the Danish toy maker that’s inspired countless children to become builders and engineers. It's trying to live up to its “Rebuild the World” slogan. How so? It's planning to make its trademark building blocks wholly out of sustainable materials.
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Aug 30, 2024

Study: Heat Deaths in US Hit Record High in 2023

Heat, along with the many health problems it causes, was responsible for at least 2,325 deaths in the US last year. That’s according to a recent study published in the Journal of American Medicine.
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Aug 29, 2024

Bird's Eye View: Humans Direct Once-Extinct Birds to Migration Lands

It’s a rare event when a “critically endangered ” bird returns from that dire scientific group. But conservationists in Europe have poured a massive amount of effort and resources into saving the northern bald ibis. Now, they just have to teach the birds where to fly.
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Aug 28, 2024

Botswana Diamond Discovery is World's Second Largest Ever

A massive diamond unearthed in the African country of Botswana is believed to be the second largest ever found. The shiny, uncut stone is already drawing praise. It's big enough to cover a grown person’s palm.
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Aug 28, 2024

War-Torn Sudan Now Hit by Massive Flooding

Sudan is already a country plagued by civil war and famine. The nation is now grappling with a series of floods. They've killed at least 132 people. They've also impacted tens of thousands of others. Many of the victims died after the collapse of a dam near Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
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Aug 27, 2024

World's Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Nears Completion in Texas

Building a house can take 7-8 months to complete, according to the Census. With a 3D printer, the job can get done in just three weeks. But it takes a really, really big printer.

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