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Why putting newspaper under your car mats during the rainy season can help keep the carpet dry |
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Scientists tagged 14,000 endangered Australian moths with paint and eyelash glue to trace their migration; not one was found, and researchers say that may be good news
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China tested nanobubbles across a 3,300-square-metre section of Taihu Lake; within 20 days a key measure of cyanobacteria fell nearly 90% and ammonia nitrogen dropped sharply
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Quote of the day by Alexander von Humboldt: “The most important result of a rational inquiry into nature is… to establish the unity and harmony” |
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Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest known nursery on the planet
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Scientists reconstructed a Wyoming forest from 56-million-year-old fossil leaves; it lost about 60% of its canopy during ancient warming and took more than 100,000 years to recover
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Christmas Throwback: When Football silenced guns — and stopped a World War | Football News

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Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history,…