10 surprising things you can recycle, from flip-flops to human hair

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  • Innovators around the world are finding creative ways to recycle things we throw away.
  • Human hair can soak up oil spills, while used coffee grounds can be made into sunglasses frames.
  • We found out how companies are repurposing old chopsticks, flip

First photos of the incredible snailfish swimming more than 8,300 meters below the surface near Japan, the deepest observation of a fish ever recorded

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Photograph of snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below sea level near Japan.
Snailfish from 7500-8200 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench.

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An ominous-looking shelf cloud descended over Chicago, EarthCam footage shows, bringing severe winds up to 60 mph

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A picture of a shelf cloud moving through downtown Chicago courtesy of Earthcam.
A picture of a shelf cloud moving through downtown Chicago courtesy of EarthCam.

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How being incarcerated affects your mental health, according to a psychologist and neurologist

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Prison barbed wire.
Incarceration comes with a host of issues, from physical violence to emotional abuse, which can significantly affect mental and psychological health.

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America is addicted to parking lots — and it's killing the economy

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A blue car drives across the outside of the earth. Following the car, the surface of the earth incrementally is covered by a full parking lot.
The US is home to as many as 2 billion parking spots. All this wasted space is wrecking our economy and making it harder to building homes.

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A cross between domestic pigs and wild boars was intentionally bred in Canada. The resulting 'super pigs' escaped captivity and could be invading the US.

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Feral pigs are already a nuisance in southern US states, but
Feral pigs are already a nuisance in southern US states, but "super pigs" from Canada could be invading from the north.

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An all-female lizard species that reproduces asexually stress-eats to cope with the deafening racket of jets at a nearby military base

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The Colorado checkered whiptail lizard.
The Colorado checkered whiptail lizard.

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A company made a volleyball-sized meatball with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein

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A large meatball, surrounded by a garnish of fruits and berries, placed on a table.
A meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth is presented at NEMO Science Museum created by a cultured meat company, in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 28, 2023.

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A dolphin 'bullied' by other dolphins refuses to leave a freshwater creek in Virginia. Staying there could lead to its death.

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A gray bottlenose dolphin looks away from the camera and looks sad

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Renaissance artists da Vinci and Botticelli may have used egg yolk in their masterpieces, new study finds

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ. Found in the collection of Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Botticelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ — one of the artworks found by the study to have egg yolk in the paint.

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  • Renaissance artists may have used egg yolk to protect and alter their paintings, scientists find. 

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