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Cheating emissions tests to a nuclear meltdown: the price of a debt to the truth
From carmakers cheating on emissions tests to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, cover-ups tend to delay a…
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Giraffes Solve Hidden Math Problems: Here’s How Researchers Proved It
A study of four Barcelona Zoo giraffes finds they can mentally add hidden food quantities to…
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Why grizzly bears are quietly abandoning salmon streams near people
Studies from Alaska and British Columbia show grizzly bears and eagles are avoiding salmon streams disturbed…
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The Hillsborough meteorite: how one homeowner’s gloves preserved a piece of the early solar system
Careful handling by a New Jersey homeowner helped preserve a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite that crashed through a…
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This spider’s silk could inspire body armor and medical sutures
Researchers studying Darwin's bark spider's river-spanning webs say its ultra-tough silk could one day inform new…
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One river, 19 test sites, and a warning sign for all of Europe’s waterways
A year-long study of Spain's Tagus River found antibiotic-resistant bacteria and faecal contamination, a finding researchers…
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Scientists found the fingerprint microbes left in rocks 2.4 billion years ago
A distinctive sulfur isotope signature that vanishes from 2.4-billion-year-old rocks is one of the clearest pieces…
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How Groundwater Turned a Gabon Uranium Deposit Into a Self-Running Nuclear Reactor
Groundwater acted as a natural moderator that let a uranium deposit at Oklo in Gabon run…
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Warming Oceans Could Make These Invisible Sky Rivers Even More Dangerous
A new study warns that as oceans warm, the moisture-source regions that fuel atmospheric rivers could…
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Six warrants, one campfire, eight years: how Gatz’s forest hideout finally ended
A 65-year-old man who had racked up six federal warrants while illegally camping in Arizona's Tonto…