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A town in northern England is heating 350 homes with water from flooded coal mines that closed decades ago, and scientists have now drilled down to see what happen…

Flooded coal mines about 500 feet under Gateshead now heat 350 homes, and scientists are testing what happens when neighbors ...
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Philadelphia put a white roof coating on 338 row houses where low-income seniors slept under black tar, and the heat coming through their ceilings nearly vanished, b…

White roof coating plus other upgrades on 338 Philadelphia row houses cut peak ceiling heat about 5°F, but bill savings were ...
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A shipping container tiny house for 2 guests is renting in Ohio’s Hocking Hills with a private hot tub outside, and its listing leaves out the one detail steel walls depend ...

Shipping container tiny house for 2 guests in Ohio has a private hot tub, but its listing gives no insulation details.
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Archaeologists in Turkey found the oldest known seeds of a flower that grows only around one Ankara district inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite jug, and its survival may c…

Hittite jug about 4,000 years old held the oldest known seeds of Ankara's critically endangered love flower, Centaurea ...
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A hunter sorted through broken weapons in a West Texas cave more than 6,000 years ago, and archaeologists still can’t say whether the hunting kit left behind was a simp…

Parts of a hunting kit found in a West Texas cave are more than 6,000 years old, and archaeologists remain unsure why the ...
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A Czech homeowner found a stone from an old barn’s foundation poking out of his garden, and it was a Bronze Age spearhead mold whose rock probably came from Hungary, about ...

Bronze Age spearhead mold from a Czech garden: the 2.4-pound stone, once in a barn foundation, probably came from rock in Hungary, about 155 miles away.
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A Patagonian sheep ranch that once held 40,535 sheep is now home to one of Argentina’s main Magellanic penguin colonies, and the twist is that the birds were al…

Patagonian sheep ranch with 40,535 sheep in 1920 is now a park with more than 40,000 pairs of Magellanic penguins that once ...
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Paul Newman gave land near his Connecticut home to his town, and the 39-acre nature preserve that opened after his death is the only public memorial his family a…

Actor Paul Newman gave land near his home in Westport, Connecticut, to the town. That gift became part of a 39-acre nature ...
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Gentoo penguins were long treated as a single species, and genomes have now split them into four, including a look-alike on remote Indian Ocean islands that had neve…

Gentoo penguins are four species, not one: 64 genomes reveal a look-alike on Kerguelen, and three could lose much of their ...
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Two Sumatran rhinos at an Indonesian sanctuary are pregnant at the same time, with fewer than 50 left in the wild, and one of the mothers was born there herself

Sumatran rhinos Ratu and Delilah are both pregnant at Way Kambas and due in May 2027, while fewer than 50 of the species ...
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A jazz guitarist who sweeps city rooftops for micrometeorites with a magnet handed scientists three specks of space dust, and in the lab they helped grow cell-like bubbl…

Micrometeorites from 3 Oslo rooftops helped scientists grow cell-like lipid bubbles in the lab, a Scientific Reports study ...