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A Prehistoric Boulder Stands Again in Dorset's Valley of Stones
The Bride Stone came to light while bushes and plants were being cleared to maintain the Valley of Stones National Nature Reserve in Dorset, England.
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From Fireballs to a Light-Day Milestone: November's Skywatching Highlights
NASA's skywatching guide for November 2026 highlights three meteor showers, a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter, a supermoon and a milestone for the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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After 37 Years, Rare Fairy Terns Eye a Restored Ruakākā Nesting Ground
No breeding by the rare tara iti, the New Zealand fairy tern, has been confirmed at Ruakākā since 1989, a 37-year absence as of 2026.
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From Thirteen Acres to Nearly Seven Hundred and Fifty: The Return of Morro Bay's Eelgrass
Between 2007 and 2017, degraded habitat and poor water quality reduced the underwater meadows of California's Morro Bay from 344 acres to just 13 acres.
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A Noisy First on the Albatross Livestream at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head
When an adult female Toroa, or northern royal albatross, known as L returned to the breeding colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on 13 October 2026, she did not build a new nest.
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Tailoring Concrete: How a Sewn Fabric Mold Cuts Cement and Steel
Roughly 8 percent of human-caused carbon emissions come from making cement, so cutting concrete use can lower construction's climate impact.
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UK Blocks Export of Georgian Bust of Edward the Black Prince
The United Kingdom Government has placed a temporary export ban on an 18th-century marble bust of Edward the Black Prince.
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The Changing Face of Antarctica's Skull-Shaped Vega Island
Located in the Weddell Sea east of the Antarctic Peninsula, Vega Island faces Devil Island.
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New Zealand's Smallest Penguins Face a Rise in Reported Dog Attacks
Weighing 1 kg, the kororā is the smallest penguin in the world.
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How Pacific Storms Speed Up the Spread of Invasive Species
In October 2026, an episode of the BioScience Talks podcast examined how large storms in the Pacific region can speed up the spread of invasive species.
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A Long-Standing Division in Yellowstone's Volcanic Record Questioned
Since the 1960s, geologists have divided the Lava Creek Tuff into two separate units known as member A and member B. This deposit of volcanic material was left behind 631,000 years ago by the supereruption that formed Yellowstone Caldera.
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Four Decades of U.S. Wind Power Estimated to Have Killed 18.7 Million Bats
Since the 1980s, wind power has expanded rapidly across North America, yet this growth has brought a major hazard for animals that play a key role in ecosystems by controlling pests and pollinating plants.
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Satellite Tags Follow Recovered Green Sea Turtles Around New Zealand
Green sea turtles do not breed in New Zealand.
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NASA Explores Commercial Options as Hubble's Orbit Slowly Decays
For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has operated in low Earth orbit, the region of space relatively close to Earth.
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Why Southern Florida's Burmese Pythons Take to the Trees
Across the diverse habitats of southern Florida, invasive Burmese pythons are very hard for wildlife managers to find and remove from the Greater Everglades ecosystem.
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Seven New Bridges Await Summer Visitors as the Mangapurua Track Reopens
Following its seasonal winter closure to cyclists, the Mangapurua Track in Whanganui National Park has reopened for summer visitors, with seven new, wider bridges along the route.
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A Double Ring of Planetary Debris Around a Dead Star
When a star similar to the Sun runs out of fuel, it swells up, loses its outer layers and destroys nearby planets.
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Social.Wiki Hands the Keys of Social Media Back to Users
Standard social media platforms rely on rigid, one-size-fits-all designs that give ordinary users almost no power to alter unwanted features.
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A Digital Boarding Pass for a Voyage to Titan
NASA is offering members of the public the chance to send their names to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, aboard a rotorcraft called Dragonfly.
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Drilling Preparations and Laser Tests at Mars's Nazca Block
Having completed its Basque Lakes drill campaign, the Curiosity rover moved a few meters from a rock block called Chiu Chiu during Sols 5043 to 5049.
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Two Telescopes Trace a Cat-Shaped Pillar in the Carina Nebula
Roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth—a light-year being the distance light travels through space in a year—sits a star-forming region inside the Carina Nebula.
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A Snake-Inspired Robot Built for the Small Intestine
The small intestine sits deep inside the body and measures an inch wide and over 20 feet long.
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Twenty-Five Years of Wings on the Water at Bitter Lake
Where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the southern plains in Roswell, New Mexico, water appears in many forms.
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Checking the Cays for Rats and Iguanas in Virgin Islands National Park
The small offshore islands of Virgin Islands National Park once hosted large nesting groups of seabirds, including Laughing Gulls, Roseate Terns, and Red-billed Tropicbirds.
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From Ancient Ash to America's Newest National Park: The Standing-Up Rocks of Chiricahua
Long before the United States made the area a national monument in 1924 to protect its unusual rock formations, the Apache had a name for this part of southeastern Arizona.
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Mapping the Uneven Pace of Warming Across the United States
Compared with the 1850–1900 preindustrial period, Earth's average surface temperature has risen by about 1.63 degrees Celsius.
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Designed for 90 Days: The Fifteen-Year Mission of the Mars Rover Opportunity
Designed for a lifespan of 90 sols—each Martian day lasting slightly longer than a 24-hour day on Earth—the NASA rover Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, operated on Mars from 2004 to 2019.
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Tiny Magnets Track Muscle Movement to Guide Future Prosthetics
Controlling a prosthetic limb like a natural one requires accurate measurements of muscle movement at the amputation site.
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Forty-Nine Years On, Voyager 1 Nears One Light-Day from the Sun
Forty-nine years after launching, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is expected on 18 November 2026 to reach a distance of one light-day—16.1 billion miles—from the Sun.
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Dual-Filament Software Brings Multi-Axis Sensing to 3D-Printed Objects
Earlier ways of 3D printing objects with built-in sensing typically used one conductive material—which lets electricity flow through it—for both the sensors and the internal wire-like traces.
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