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From 1923 to 1945 California moved 338 beavers into 29 of 58 counties, for fur as well as water storage and erosion control. In October 2023 it released seven in Plum…

California moved 338 beavers between 1923 and 1945 for fur and water storage. In October 2023 it made its first beaver ...
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In Boca Raton, Florida, 15-year-old Hannah Herbst built a roughly $12 ocean-current energy probe with a 3D-printed propeller, lit LEDs in Intracoastal tests, and won $25…

Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller ...
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Tracking 10,317 members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 to age 80, a 2026 study found that childhood exposure to fluoridated drinking water was not linked t…

Members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 who grew up with fluoridated drinking water scored no lower on IQ tests as ...
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Does regenerative farming pay a grower who never goes organic? Giving up the plow raised net returns by $34 to $93 an acre for corn and $30 to $86 for soybean across three ...

Does it pay to switch to regenerative farming? For a corn grower who sells at the elevator, the best evidence gives two different answers. The elevator is the local depot that buys grain by the ...
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Your dentist is part of your longevity program

The statistical association is clear: tooth decay and infected gums are associated with higher rates of heart disease and all ...
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Why does Tennessee now have wild hogs in about 80 of its 95 counties when they were confined to a handful a few decades ago?

A 1999 hunting season with no bag limit was meant to cut Tennessee’s wild hog numbers, but it made the hogs worth moving, and ...
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Most US lobster-trap tags that washed up on two Azores islands came from Maine, more than 3,000 km away, in a count of 1,577 pieces of North American gear with ta…

Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year ...
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Becoming a Man, a Chicago program built on cognitive behavioral therapy, cut violent-crime arrests 45 to 50 percent across two randomized trials, with no sign the gains came ...

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, a public high school on Chicago's South Side. Photo: Klio0701, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 2009, researchers in Chicago set out to test a weekly school ...
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Sharing a bed with a dog showed no difference in owners’ tracker-measured sleep duration or efficiency, whether they reported always, sometimes or never doing it, in a study ...

Husky and malamute owners showed no significant tracker-measured sleep difference by bed-sharing habit. Twelve of 25 said their dog interrupted their sleep.
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In 1992 a container ship lost 28,800 plastic bath toys in the North Pacific, and an oceanographer spent the next two decades logging where the ducks washed up, from Alaska to ...

gaetanlee / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rubber_duckies_So_many_ducks.jpg Twenty-eight thousand eight ...
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A 5,700-year-old lump of chewed birch tar dug up on a Danish island gave up the complete genome of the woman who chewed it, along with her dark skin, blue eyes, and the duck ...

Jorre / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birkenpech.JPG A dark, pliable lump about the size of a thumbnail came out ...