New York has tried poison, traps, and birth control to fix its pest problem. Rat researchers say the city should focus on its people instead.

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A rat sticks its head out of a garbage can as it hunts for food in Bogardus Plaza in Tribeca on August 17, 2022, in New York City.
The prolific rat problem in New York City is caused at least in part by poor food waste disposal, experts say.

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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs

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White mushroom cloud of the first hydrogen bomb test over the Marshall Islands.
The first hydrogen bomb test, as part of Operation Ivy, detonated over the Marshall Islands in 1952.

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NASA now has an instrument orbiting Earth that can see major air pollutants across North America, tracing them down to an exact neighborhood

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A map of North America showing pollution levels measured by NASA's TEMPO instrument.
NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument now orbiting Earth is the first of its kind.

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A thief suspected of plundering treasures from the British Museum vaults for 20 years is a 'possible case of kleptomania,' police source says

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A police van is seen outside the gates of the British Museum as officers deal with a public disturbance on August 23, 2023 in London, England.
A police van is seen outside the gates of the British Museum as officers deal with a public disturbance on August 23, 2023 in London, England.

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200 monster hunters armed with drones join the biggest search in 50 years for Scotland's fabled Loch Ness creature

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Black and white image showing what looks like a creature's head and neck in the Loch Ness.
The 1934 "surgeon's photo" of the monster, now deemed a hoax

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Extreme heat could make photosynthesis impossible for tropical trees and plants that may all die as a result, a new study found.

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Visitors walk through the world heritage listed daintree rainforest on November 14, 2012 in Mossman Gorge, Australia.

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Images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal tiny flares shooting from a 'hole' in the sun. They could explain how the sun blasts Earth with charged particles.

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Snapshots of small jets, or "picoflares," on the sun, from the Solar Orbiter mission operated by NASA and ESA.

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A rare blue supermoon rising August 30 will be the biggest full moon of 2023 — and won't happen again until 2037

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A supermoon rises behind a downtown office building in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 7, 2020.

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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft may have discovered what powers solar winds

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We know the sun belches out solar winds, but the origin of these streams of charged particles remain a mystery and has been the subject of numerous studies over the past decades.

Around 10,000 penguin chicks died when the Antarctic ice they lived on melted — they were still too young to survive in the icy water

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Emperor Penguin chicks at colony Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.

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