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Misplaced waste has cost the North West region more than $700,000 in the past year with a new…
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First baby beavers born in Scotland’s Glen Affric after 400 years mark a major rewilding milestone |
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A Martian day runs 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, so rover teams at JPL live on Mars time for the length of a mission, sliding their whole schedule later each day until they are eating breakfast at midnight, and their families describe it as jet lag with no destination
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World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Ancient DNA reveals Ice Age humans selectively harvested female mammoths
Excavation in Langmannersdorf 2025. Photo: Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences. Credit Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences An international…
Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
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