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Category 4 Hurricane Kiko is heading for Hawaii — but it will weaken before it gets there, forecasters sayWeather predictions show that Hurricane Kiko could hit Hawaii next week, but forecasters say the Category 4 storm will weaken to a tropical storm or low-category hurricane this weekend.
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Narusawa Ice Cave: The lava tube brimming with 10-foot-high ice pillars at the base of Mount FujiThe Narusawa Ice Cave is a natural lava tunnel that formed during a violent eruption of Mount Fuji in A.D. 864. Every winter, the cave grows giant ice pillars due to its freezing temperatures.
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Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study findsThe Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation brings heat to the Northern Hemisphere and regulates the climate globally, but research suggests it could weaken significantly in the coming decades.
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40-year-old 'queen of icebergs' A23a is no longer world's biggest after losing several 'very large chunks' since MayA giant iceberg called A23a that broke off Antarctica in 1986 is now disintegrating near South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, scientists say.
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See what would happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted 'without any warning' in new AI-generated videoJapanese government officials have released an AI video to show just how devastating an eruption at Mount Fuji could be. But don't worry, the dormant volcano is currently not at risk of blowing.
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The geology that holds up the Himalayas is not what we thought, scientists discoverA 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests.
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Loughareema: The 'vanishing lake' in Northern Ireland that mysteriously drains and refills itself within hoursThe Vanishing Lake in Northern Ireland's County Antrim can be full in the morning and empty a few hours later, thanks to an underground drainage system that scientists still don't fully grasp.
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'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scaleThe current hurricane classification does not consider storm surge and rainfall risks, which cause almost 80% of hurricane-related deaths. A new scale could help people better prepare for storms.
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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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