ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters backed up by aircraft were battling a wildfire burning out of control for the third day on the eastern Aegean island of Chios…
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From catching fish to picking trash, Thailand’s sea nomads are forced off the water
The Moken, a nomadic seafaring people in Thailand, have for generations lived most of their days at sea, moving from one place to another, fishing and foraging. However, with…
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Workers digging at the World Trade Center site found a mystery boat. Now they’re rebuilding it
A remarkable piece of American history, a Revolutionary War-era boat, is slowly being…
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One of Da Vinci’s early designs could make modern drones stealthier, scientists say
A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance-era Italian polymath Leonardo…
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Mongabay India on making environmental stories accessible in Hindi
When Mongabay India first launched in 2018, the bureau initially reported exclusively in English. In late 2020, Mongabay began reporting in Hindi, one of India’s most widely…
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MIT grads build smart tool to help test fighter jets, robots faster
Modern fighter jets collect endless data every second, thanks to the thousands of sensors those jets use. And rightly so, given how that data can make sense and carve out valuable patterns for engineers if they can make sense of them.
An MIT…
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Scientists reprogram ant behavior using brain molecules
From the bright lights of cities that don’t sleep — where people hustle and bustle through the night to keep subways, servers, and supply chains alive — to the whisper-dark understory of tropical forests where ants hum in syncopated lines, the…
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Maxar launches intelligence service focused on ‘persistent monitoring’
WASHINGTON — Maxar Intelligence launched a new monitoring product called Sentry, part of a broader effort to move beyond satellite imagery and become a provider of actionable geospatial intelligence.
The company, based in Westminster,…
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The blood-curdling Permian monsters that ruled the Earth before dinosaurs
Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC(Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC) Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by Hollywood.
Around a quarter of a billion years later, on a sunny day in…
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China makes first advanced cryomodule for nuclear research facility
China has achieved a major milestone in particle accelerator technology by successfully developing its first double-spoke superconducting cavity cryomodule.
The development of Phase II of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS-II), a premier…
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