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Baby colossal squid filmed alive for the first time in deep ocean

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Cancer drug from the 1960s became first approved AIDS treatment

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An Illinois factory plans to use its own retired batteries to help manage peak demand, giving the packs a second life before recycling.

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Britain resurfaced a motorway stretch with rubber from 750 scrapped tyres per kilometre

What sounds like a circular-economy win—turning scrap tyres into motorway surface—gets muddier once you examine where the numbers really come from.

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Diplodocus fossils discovered in Spain challenge North America-only theory

The discovery challenges a century-old assumption that one of Earth's most iconic dinosaurs never left North America.

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40,000 tonnes of chemical weapons still lurk in Baltic fishing nets

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