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Nike’s recycled World Cup uniforms reveal the limits of ‘circular’ fashion
Will chemical recycling revolutionize the fashion industry, or is it just “an excuse to keep producing plastic clothes”?
Four drones will go where no astronaut have landed—yet
NASA’s MoonFall mission plans to send drones to the moon’s South Pole sometime in 2028.
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Chicago, Baltimore, Toronto, and other cities see the same effect at different times of year.
Doctors perform rare emergency C-section on a gorilla
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Fans don’t cool rooms and 3 other myths about home energy conservation
Step away from the thermostat.
Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight.
The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.
Jackie and Shadow’s chicks no longer sleep with mom in the nest bowl
No one wants a bald eagle talon to the eye at 3am.
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Charles Darwin’s daughter once hunted the putrid ‘devil’s dipstick.’
Pregnant gorillas undergo ultrasounds and the results might look familiar
A probe the size of an electric shaver helped monitor the pregnancies of two critically endangered gorillas
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