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A single Instagram photo from Colombia has revealed a new giant water lily that can be seen from space, and researchers believe only 30 to 50 of these plants remain in …

Giant water lily Victoria colombiana, with pads up to 6.6 feet wide, was found via Instagram in Colombia; only 30 to 50 ...
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Earth’s crust and mantle rapidly shifted relative to the planet’s spin axis four times in the past 320 million years, and the evidence comes from an unusual record left by ...

Earth's crust and mantle moved rapidly four times in 320 million years, a Science study finds from flooding left by ancient ...
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A physicist rode campus elevators with a 6.2-mile spool of optical fiber to test whether gravity changes the speed of light, and the effect he reports is far too big f…

Speed of light and gravity: a physicist timed lasers in 12.4 miles of fiber in elevators and a lab, and reports an effect 85 ...
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Hungary’s Danube dropped so low that divers working almost blind pulled a 1,100-pound Roman marble statue from the riverbed, and archaeologists still cannot say …

Roman marble statue of a woman, about 1,100 pounds and 1,700 years old, pulled from Hungary's low Danube at Dunaújváros by ...
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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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The eruption that buried Pompeii is now helping scientists date volcanic rock with a margin of just 13 years, and the pumice behind the result had sat unused for decades

Eruption that buried Pompeii lets scientists date Vesuvius pumice to 1,938 years, plus or minus 13, just eight years off the ...
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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 a…

WASP-17b atmosphere mapped by Webb 1,300 light-years away: the evening edge, near 2,280°F, bulges out farther than the cooler ...