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  1. Tech

    Scientists Say: Agrivoltaics

    This win-win technology means future farmers may produce both food and electricity.

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  2. Animals

    Narwhals may use their enormous lance-like tusks to play

    Video shows narwhals using their tusks to prod — even flip — fish they don’t target as prey. It’s the first reported evidence of these whales playing.

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  3. Environment

    New water treatment process removes pollutants most now don’t

    The two-step water treatment process could cut not only excreted drugs flowing into waterways but also some nutrients that feed harmful algal blooms.

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  4. Earth

    Can engineering save Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier?

    Bold engineering projects might stabilize Thwaites Glacier and slow sea level rise. But no one knows if they will work — or have serious side effects.

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  5. Earth

    Earth farts may explain some spooky floating lights

    The gases released by earthquakes might occasionally ignite, triggering ghostly lights sometimes witnessed in South Carolina.

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  6. Plants

    Could trees ever get up and walk away?

    In fantasy, trees can walk, climb and even fight. Real trees move, too. It just happens in extreme slow mo.

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  7. Earth

    Analyze This: Smartphone data may help improve GPS

    Data from millions of phones helped fill in maps of the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer that can muddle radio signals key for navigation systems.

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  8. Earth

    Scientists Say: Dark lightning

    We don't see it, but rare gamma-ray lightning can bolt from stormy skies like regular lightning.

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  9. Animals

    A changing Arctic current seems to be impacting bowhead whales

    A teen researcher investigated bowhead whales and found their migrations may be responding to a changing sea current.

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