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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover sets distance record
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Why Google is paying to upgrade nuclear power plants
In the race to power data centers, could tech company cash help carbon-free energy win out?
Human teeth pinpoint when lead began poisoning medieval town
Dental enamel reveals the toxic metal’s origins in England.
Rocky the pumpkin wins ‘Superbowl of Pumpkin Weigh Offs’ at 2,389 pounds
Minnesota’s Travis Gienger won the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off for the fifth time.
Bee stingers work like saws to pump venom
Watch new slow-mo video to see these tiny stingers in action.
World War II notes linked to ‘The Great Escape’ prison camp found in garage crawlspace
Handwritten accounts describe the horrors of Stalag Luft 3.
Why fall yard care could start with doing less – but not nothing
Leaves on the ground are part of the natural cycle of nutrients.
North America’s tiniest mammals are living at a Marine Corps training area. That’s good.
Pacific pocket mice are about the size of a human thumb.
8 fierce animals show just how metal nature is
‘Nature is Metal: It’s A Life-Eats-Life World’ shows Earth’s flora and fauna in all of their hungry glory.
Young parrot rescued from grips of invasive boa snake
A biologist came upon the scene in Puerto Rico.
What was the original first‑person shooter?
Two largely forgotten computer games from the 1970s ushered in the genre.
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