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A tiny jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can respond to injury or starvation by reprogramming its adult body back into a polyp, restarting its life cycle with no known limit on how often the reset can happen
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and then attaches itself in the tongue's place, functioning as a working replacement organ for the rest of the fish's life
What happened when a war-flattened Asian peninsula with bare, eroding hills spent four decades planting trees and ended up roughly two-thirds covered in forest?
A 2024 estimate put a 100-word GPT-4 email at 519 millilitres of water, while training GPT-3 may have directly consumed enough for 350,000 people to drink for a day
Saudi Arabia, a country that is roughly 95 percent desert, imports sand from Australia to make concrete, because wind-rounded desert grains are too smooth to bind and only angular river or quarry sand will hold a structure together
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event pushed auroras as far south as Cuba and set telegraph paper on fire in offices from Boston to Paris, with operators reporting they could still send messages after disconnecting the batteries because the wires were carrying the storm's own current.
A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, making it the largest all-electric passenger vessel ever floated
What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages that had been stranded 100 kilometres from any shore?
Why does a deep-water shark in the Arctic routinely live past 400 years while spending almost all of that time functionally blind and moving barely faster than a walking human?
World's biggest sovereign fund pleads to save oceans
