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A hole almost as big as Portugal opened in Antarctic sea ice in midwinter, something satellites had never seen there since 1979, and what kept it from freezing came fro…

Antarctic sea ice opened a 34,410-square-mile hole in Breid Bay in August 2024, fed by six atmospheric rivers and warm water ...
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An underwater volcano in Tonga moved enough rock to fill 1,500 Great Pyramids when it erupted in 2022, and maps of the seafloor show its crater floor caved in whil…

Underwater volcano in Tonga moved 2.1 cubic miles of rock in 2022, enough for 1,500 Great Pyramids, as its caldera collapsed ...
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Medieval workers carved the Pont du Gard’s piers to less than half their thickness so carts could cross a Roman aqueduct, and what finally took the traffic off was a seco…

Pont du Gard piers lost over half their thickness in the 1300s so carts could pass, until 1690s repairs and a 1747 road ...
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France emptied Lake Guerlédan and 2 million people walked into the valley hidden beneath it, and what they found was not the drowned village many stories describe

Lake Guerlédan was emptied in 2015 and about 2 million visitors walked its bed, finding canal locks and slate quarries, not a ...
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Czech cave divers swam 115 feet down into flooded tunnels beneath the Moravian Karst, and they now believe they have found the spot where an underground river i…

The Punkva is the main river of the northern Moravian Karst, according to the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech ...
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Ireland seized a ship smuggling 32 million cigarettes and could not sell it or scrap it, so it ended up as the country’s first artificial reef, and fish have already moved in

Artificial reef: the MV Shingle, seized by Ireland in 2014 with 32 million smuggled cigarettes, was sunk in Killala Bay in ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope traced the WASP-17b atmosphere 1,300 light-years away, and the giant planet’s outline is not the perfect circle that models had assumed ...

WASP-17b atmosphere mapped by Webb 1,300 light-years away: the evening edge, near 2,280°F, bulges out farther than the cooler morning side.
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A lava world where a year lasts just 23 hours seems to be holding on to an atmosphere, and the clue that gave it away is heat astronomers expected to find bu…

Lava world HD 3167 b circles its star in 23 hours, yet Webb data suggest it keeps an atmosphere that holds its dayside near 1 ...
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Thanksgiving food waste reached an estimated 320 million pounds in 2025, according to ReFED, and turkey made up 40 percent of it, while USDA guidance gives leftover…

Thanksgiving food waste hit about 320 million pounds, worth $550 million, in 2025, ReFED estimates. Turkey was 40 percent.
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Human cartilage holds only about a third of the cushioning molecules found in chimpanzees and gorillas, and scientists now think our bad knees may be a price w…

Human cartilage holds about one-third of the cushioning GAGs found in other great apes, a Nature study finds, hinting at why ...
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Hidden for 600 years in a filled-in moat behind the Dutch parliament, a gold ring has resurfaced, and the Gothic letters set into its band spell out a single word about loy…

Gold ring found in a medieval moat behind the Binnenhof in The Hague is about 600 years old and its Gothic letters spell ...
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Psychology says suppressing thoughts doesn’t have to backfire the way a famous 1987 white bear experiment suggested, and a new study found the expected rebou…

Suppressing thoughts may not backfire: a 2026 retest of the 1987 white bear task found no rebound, and Bayesian analysis gave ...