The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs

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An annotated map of Egypt and Israel shows the placement of the existing Suez Canal and an approximation of plans for a canal through Israel that the US considered in the 1960s.

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Scientists have revived 'zombie' bugs and viruses before that were trapped in ancient ice. One may have been 8 million years old.

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A man walks through a tunnel formed from crystals of permafrost outside the village of Tomtor.
A man walks through a tunnel formed from crystals of permafrost outside the village of Tomtor.

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Lost samples from a secret army base reveal that Greenland's ice vanished 416,000 years ago. That means it could melt way faster than expected.

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Two reserachers, Lyle B. Hansen and Chester Langway, lean over a grey-brown piece of core with engrossed looks on their faces. The man on the left is pointing with a gloved hand to something on the core we can't see, he appears to be saying something.
Lyle B. Hansen and Chester Langway inspecting the sub-ice core from the Project Iceworm drilling.

Photograph by David Atwood, U.S.

China is installing offshore wind turbines as tall as 30 Rock in the Taiwan Strait

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A boat sails past wind turbines north of Pingtan Island, opposite Taiwan, in China's southeast Fujian province on April 10, 2023.

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The remains of long-lost climbers are appearing as climate change melts glaciers

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Ice on a glacier melting into dripping water.
A melted glacier revealed the remains of a long-lost German mountain climber this month.

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Scientists say they have induced 'virgin births' in fruit flies for the first time by switching on the right genes

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Fruit fly, Drosophila mercatorum
Fruit fly, Drosophila mercatorum

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They were slaughtered for their blubber, and nearly wiped out in Brazil. Decades later, humpback whales are making a comeback.

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A humpback whale breaches off in the coast of Ilhabela, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil July 22, 2023.
A humpback whale breaching off in the coast of Ilhabela, an archipelago in South-East Brazil, at the end of July.

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Jaden Smith says he took magic mushrooms as a young adult. Brain experts who study psychedelics warn that wasn't a good idea.

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Jaden Smith said his mother introduced him to magic mushrooms.

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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists

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A recreation of the experiment shows how Louis Slotin used a screwdriver to hold open metallic half-spheres around the "demon core."

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An 'exceptional' Roman shipwreck was discovered with hundreds of intact 2,000-year-old jars off the coast of Italy

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An image of a pile Ancient Roman vases at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea.
The Italian Carabinieri discovered the remains of an Ancient Roman cargo ship full of terracotta jars, or "amphorae."

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