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View of an Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), a subspecies of the Asian elephant in Northern Thailand

September 14, 2026

Big ears. Trunks. Wrinkly, grey skin. Ask a five-year-old to draw an elephant and you’ll get much the…

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets

September 14, 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on Aug. 30, 2026, beginning a journey that will take it…

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September 14, 2026

How do they compare on carbon emissions, water pollution, biodiversity, and land use? As someone who has studied…

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September 14, 2026

Stratolaunch Steps Up Next-Gen Hypersonic Talon Study With NASA | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Guy…

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Image from simulation of ice XVIII. Oxygen ions (red) occupy a regular crystal lattice, while protons (white) diffuse like a liquid.

September 14, 2026

Uploaded to DailyKos by Ed Tracey Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up…

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In 1837, New Zealand imported possums for a fur trade; 189 years later, aerial photos show they have damaged about half the vulnerable trees in one rare South Island forest

September 14, 2026

PossumsRepresentative image In 1837, New Zealand introduced Australian brushtail possums in the hope of building a profitable fur…

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University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified only the second crinoid fossil ever found with preserved soft tissue — the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, dated to about 450 million years ago and spotted in a small museum collection in Montreal

September 14, 2026

Somewhere in a small museum in Montreal, on a shelf funded entirely by community donations, a piece of…

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Australia switched on a $7.8 million wastewater plant that can process 700 megalitres a year; its inventor says it breaks down stubborn pollutants 16 times more efficiently

September 14, 2026

An average Australian household generates about 350 litres of wastewater daily. Combined across the country, this leads to…

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September 14, 2026

A hybrid energy system for heating, cooling and generating electricity – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…

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Scientists used a microlight aircraft to teach bald ibises a migration route; years later, Europe got its first self-sustaining colony in 400 years | World News

September 14, 2026

For centuries, the northern bald ibis was missing from Europe’s skies, its migratory population wiped out in Central…

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Solar wind particles appear to be lodged deeper in the lunar soil Chang'e-6 scooped from the Moon's far side than in the near-side soil Chang'e-5 brought home, and the researchers attribute the gap to Earth's magnetosphere, which they estimate slows part of the wind reaching the near side to about 200 kilometres per second

September 14, 2026

Solar-wind krypton and xenon in the lunar soil Chang’e-6 brought back from the far side of the Moon…

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September 14, 2026

For the better part of a decade, when Americans thought about energy, they thought about climate change: how…

“They’re more closely related to woolly mammoths than they are to African elephants…” Just how different are African, forest and Asian elephants?

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets

Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming?

Stratolaunch Steps Up Next-Gen Hypersonic Talon Study With NASA

Top Comments: Superionic Ice and the Magnetic Fields of the Outer Planets

In 1837, New Zealand imported possums for a fur trade; 189 years later, aerial photos show they have damaged about half the vulnerable trees in one rare South Island forest

University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified only the second crinoid fossil ever found with preserved soft tissue — the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, dated to about 450 million years ago and spotted in a small museum collection in Montreal

Australia switched on a $7.8 million wastewater plant that can process 700 megalitres a year; its inventor says it breaks down stubborn pollutants 16 times more efficiently

A hybrid energy system for heating, cooling and generating electricity – Physics World

Scientists used a microlight aircraft to teach bald ibises a migration route; years later, Europe got its first self-sustaining colony in 400 years | World News

Chris Wright on Energy Abundance