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In Massachusetts, a flock of sheep came to a solar farm looking for shade and ended up repaying the favor by mowing the grass beneath the panels, creating ‘solar grazi…

In Massachusetts, a flock of sheep came to a solar farm looking for shade and ended up repaying the favor by mowing the grass ...
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Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence …

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result ...
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Built to chew a 2 mile tunnel under downtown Seattle, a 7,000 ton machine named “Bertha” spun a 57 foot cutting face for barely 1,000 feet before her main bearing ...

Beneath the streets of downtown Seattle, the largest machine of its kind sat dead in the dark. She had ground forward only ...
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Psychology of daydreaming: People whose minds wander 46 percent of waking hours aren’t lazy or distracted, they may be running one of the brain’s most powerful creat…

Psychology says daydreaming isn't laziness. Science links mind-wandering to creativity, memory and problem-solving — and a ...
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The shadow waiting on the porch

A Daytona Beach homeowner opened the door to find an alligator on the porch. After responders arrived, the reptile surprised ...
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White-nose syndrome has now spread to more than 40 US states, and the $420 million loss hiding inside America’s farm fields every year has nothing to do with the crop

White-nose syndrome has pushed agricultural losses past $420 million a year and is now shrinking rural tax bases — the real cost hiding inside US farm fields is staggering.
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In Texas, thousands of customers are walking into McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and In-N-Out Burger and noticing unexpected changes to the menu

Thousands of customers in Texas are noticing menu changes at McDonald's, Taco Bell, and In-N-Out Burger, prompting questions ...
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Enough heat entered the ocean in 2024 to outpace the world’s total electricity generation 140 times over, and a separate study just put a $2 trillion price tag on oc…

The ocean hit its hottest temperature ever recorded in 2024, and scientists now estimate the hidden cost of that fever ...
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Declared extinct in 1898, 500 of these iridescent prehistoric birds are walking New Zealand’s alpine valleys again, and the strange trick scientists used to bring them back ...

Declared extinct in 1898, the takahē is back in New Zealand's wild alpine valleys — and the bizarre sock puppet trick that saved it will genuinely surprise you.
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Trees cancel out nearly half the heat a city makes, across 8,919 of them worldwide, and the map of where those trees grow says almost nothing about climate and ever…

Scientists analyzed 9,000 cities and discovered urban trees cut the heat island effect in half — but the cooling is missing ...
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Psychology says people who reach for herbal remedies when they feel sick aren’t avoiding medicine, they may be trusting a 2,000-year-old pharmacopoeia that a Tur…

Psychology says trusting plant medicine isn't anti-science. A Turkish professor just found a 2,000-year-old "miracle plant" ...
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Solar farms now cover 37,000 square miles of Earth, and the 80,000-person company that built millions of those panels just discovered its biggest problem isn’t the price ...

The world's largest solar panel maker just cut thousands of jobs. But deep inside its sprawling fields, a stranger problem is ...