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Deep envisions several of its 'sentinel' units parking beside each other to from an underwater research center.
Technology

The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement

Initial participants may spend 28 days in these ‘sentinels’—but the firm envisions much, much longer stays.

Crane installing wind turbine wings
Renewables

New wind turbines will test out the world’s longest wooden blades

Two companies aim to install over 164-foot-long blades as early as next year.

an orange kitten with its paw up
Cats

Relax, Whiskers. Scotland is not banning cats

The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission estimates that domestic felines annually kill at least 27 million animals in the UK.

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.
Birds

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

The duck-like Vegavis iaai had strong jaws for snatching fish.

raw water
Health

How does raw water compare to tap water?

A microbiologist explains why the risks outweigh the benefits.

Diagram showing potential labret piercing abrasions on teeth
Archaeology

Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children

The body modification practice may be 29,000-years-old.

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.
Space Telescope

Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away

The gas spewing from these protostars collides with fast stellar winds.

A general view exterior of Caesars Superdome, home of the NFL New Orleans Saints, on October 13, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Technology

FAA creates ‘No Drone Zone’ around Super Bowl LIX

The NFL reports a 20,000% increase in unauthorized drone activity during games between 2017 and 2023.

Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site
Archaeology

‘Devil’s money’ discovered at medieval cult site

‘The results should be studied with an open mind.’

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