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Chinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlightResearchers injected "afterglow" phosphor particles into succulents to create the world's first multicolored glow-in-the-dark plants, featuring blue, green, red and blue-violet luminescence.
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Pallas's cat: One of the world's oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warmPallas's cat is a small wild cat native to Central Asia with short legs and dense fur, making it look bigger than it really is — but the yelps it makes in stressful situations betray its size.
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Three Whale Rock: Thailand's 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they're floating in a sea of treesThree Whale Rock is a geological formation and tourist attraction in Thailand's Phu Sing Forest Park that looks remarkably like a small family of whales.
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'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study findsUnchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.
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After Mount Vesuvius erupted, Romans returned to Pompeii and stayed for 400 years — but it was likely anarchyNew excavations in Pompeii's Insula Meridionalis quarter have confirmed long-held suspicions that people returned to the ancient Roman city after the volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.
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NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on MarsNASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece of coral.
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Maya civilization had 16 million people at peak, new study finds — twice the population of modern-day NYCAfter using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 600 to 900).
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Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia'Size really does matter' The males of four newfound tarantula species have extremely long genitalia so that they can keep their distance from aggressive females during mating, researchers say.
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5,000-year-old burials in Germany hold 3 women with bedazzled baby carriersCopper Age burials holding the remains of elite women and elaborate pouches decorated with hundreds of animal teeth have been discovered in Germany.
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Glaciers across North America and Europe have lost an 'unprecedented' amount of ice in the past 4 yearsGlaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, with both the annual amount of ice lost and the four-year average reaching all-time highs.
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Watch a pod of orcas pretending to drown one of their own in macabre training sessionFootage from the BBC's new nature series "Parenthood" shows orcas practicing an important blue whale-hunting technique on each other.
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See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years agoNew reconstructions based on the skeletons of two sisters who lived in a prehistoric mining community in what is now the Czech Republic show what they likely looked like and wore.
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Australia's pink lakes: The remnants of ancient rivers now teeming with microbes that make rosy pigmentsPink lakes in Western Australia get their color from pigments produced by microbes, but climate change and other human threats are killing these tiny organisms.
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Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.
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Teen at Yellowstone suffers severe burns after ground breaks over scalding thermal pondA 17-year-old badly burned his foot and ankle on Monday (July 28) while hiking off trail near the Lone Star Geyser, Yellowstone National Park representatives said.
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Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footageFootage from the BBC's new nature series "Parenthood" shows African social spiders committing matricide and cannibalizing their elderly relatives. Even Sir David Attenborough was horrified.
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Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New YorkA hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to where it is today at a rate of 12 miles per million years, scientists have found.
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A mysterious barrier in the Atlantic divides weird deep-sea jellyfish cousinsResearchers have mapped the distribution of a jellyfish subspecies and found that creatures which lack a distinctive "knob" are somehow prevented from leaving the Arctic.
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We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?A report published in June found that the world only has three years before it crosses the 1.5 C climate target. So what should we do now?
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Tuvalu residents prepare for world’s first planned migration of an entire nation — and climate change is to blameA first-of-its-kind lottery for residents of Tuvalu who want to move to Australia due to climate change threats is closing today, with more than 5,000 applications received.
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Mount Thor: The mountain with Earth's longest vertical dropMount Thor, also known as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Nunavut, Canada with the largest vertical drop in the world — a terrifying escarpment with an average overhang of 15 degrees from vertical.
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Giant meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years agoResearchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists previously didn't think had anything to do with each other.
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'Beautifully preserved' ice age horse skull unearthed in Yukon mineNew pictures taken in Yukon, Canada, show a perfectly preserved fossil skull, which experts say belonged to a male, teenage horse that lived during the last ice age.
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Collapse of key Atlantic currents may be held off by newly-discovered back-up system, study findsRising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but a new process in the Arctic could save the day, scientists say.
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