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On Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons evaporate each year, more than the Seine carries through Paris, and a 1959 treaty b…

Lake Nasser loses an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons a year to evaporation, more than the Seine carries through Paris in an ...
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In South Australia’s opal town of Coober Pedy, about half of residents live in underground homes that stay between 66 and 77°F, and SA Water takes over the town’s aging ...

Underground homes shelter about half of Coober Pedy, where dugouts stay 66 to 77°F, the airport has hit 118.9°F and SA Water is taking over the water.
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Outside the International Space Station, NASA’s Anil Menon and Canada’s Joshua Kutryk will install the last two roll-out solar arrays on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, lifting station ...

NASA's Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk will install the last two on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, lifting station power to about 215 kilowatts.
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On the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province, 36 Milu deer escaped a flooded nature reserve in May 1998, and by the end of 2009 the escapees and their descend…

Milu deer escaped a flooded Yangtze reserve in May 1998, and the 36 runaways and their offspring passed 500 by 2009 before ...
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At the center of the Milky Way, astronomers found the fastest known star, S301, reaching about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit co…

Fastest known star S301 reaches about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit could reveal the ...
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NOAA says the 2026 El Niño is already the second strongest on record, and a “very strong” event through early winter is now the most likely outcome

NOAA forecasters say the 2026 El Niño is already the second strongest on record under the new RONI index and that a very strong event through early winter is now the most likely outcome.
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At Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a prototype cooling system uses heat instead of an electric motor to stretch an ultrathin metal film, and it reached a 4°C ...

Cooling system built around two ultrathin nickel-titanium films lets heat do a motor's job and reached a 4°C temperature difference in KIT lab tests.
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In northern Quebec’s La Grande hydroelectric complex, flooding pushed mercury in fish to 2 to 8 times natural lake levels, and the Cree health board now says most local fish ...

Mercury in fish from Quebec's La Grande reservoirs rose 2 to 8 times above natural lakes after flooding, and most predators took 20 to 31 years to recover ...
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Inside the Sun, an Ege University astronomer’s models hint that our star may have swallowed a rocky world of five to ten Earth masses, and the best fit points to about 5.6 ...

Rocky world swallowed by the young Sun? Mutlu Yıldız’s models favor a super-Earth about 5.6 times Earth’s mass to explain puzzles inside our star.
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Across Switzerland, 1,000 volunteers buried over 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear, and within two months gardens broke down about 58 percent of the fabric in soils holding ...

Cotton underwear buried by 1,000 Swiss volunteers lost about 58 percent of its fabric in gardens in two months, a sign of rich soil and excess phosphorus.
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In Brazil’s Chapada dos Guimarães, Asian elephant Sandro, about 54, walked out of a crate after 44 years at the Sorocaba Zoo, and on his second night he chose to sleep ...

Asian elephant Sandro, about 54, left a Brazilian zoo after 44 years, rode 1,000 miles to a Mato Grosso sanctuary and slept outside on his second night ...
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Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a …

Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic in 2001 and glided for about 19 minutes to the Azores, where all ...