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At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface ...

Tetra Pak carton strips used as homemade roof insulation carried flames 5.9 inches in 14 seconds in Brazilian tests, and ...
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Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a …

Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic in 2001 and glided for about 19 minutes to the Azores, where all ...
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In the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s Gotland, the 2018 heat wave pushed surface water to about 81 degrees Fahrenheit on August 1, and on some July days southern Scandin…

Baltic Sea water hit about 81°F on August 1, 2018, its warmest year on satellite record, and on some July days southern ...
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NASA released footage of astronauts testing Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus as robotic rovers and lunar terrain vehicles get ready to scout the Moon’s South Pole, and eac…

Lunar terrain vehicles from Astrolab and Lunar Outpost will map the Moon's South Pole by remote control, up to 3.7 miles a ...
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In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio ...

Lowland tapirs are back in Rio de Janeiro state: around 25 now live in and around the Guapiaçu reserve, which has planted 1 million native seedlings.
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Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 perc…

Seabird collisions at Thanet Offshore Wind Farm: a 2018 study counted 6 strikes in 606,554 camera videos, and 96.8% of ...
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In Mars’ Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in bedrock, one roughly 0.4 inches across, and the mission’s September 3 updat…

Curiosity rover images from Gale Crater show broad, shallow pits about 0.4 inches across that NASA's September 3 mission ...
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Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common e…

Chytrid fungus turned up in 57 of 97 Brazilian frogs collected after a 1979-1982 die-off and in none of 230 older museum ...
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At Japan’s car parts shipping sites, workers read about 10 barcodes per product until DENSO’s Masahiro Hara created the QR code in 1994, and it now tracks glass eels for an ...

QR code history: in 1994, DENSO's Masahiro Hara replaced about 10 barcode scans per car part, and the code now logs glass eel sales in Japan ...
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Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after manage…

Asiatic wild asses released in Israel's Negev since 1982 show a diet 91.4 percent native in dung DNA, and new water points ...
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In China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as t…

Giant fungus D-rex from Yunnan grows up to 20 inches tall and 4.9 pounds; its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, ...
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Saudi Arabia told the IAEA it has about 114 million metric tons of uranium-bearing ore near Medina, and the figure that matters most for its nuclear plans, the uraniu…

Saudi Arabia reports 114 million metric tons at Jabal Sayid near Medina, but no uranium grade yet, and experts urge caution ...