How to choose the best Christmas tree, whether you want a rich pine scent or long-lasting needles

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A person in a plaid shirt hands down a Fraser fir Christmas tree while unloading a truck full of trees
The vast majority of Christmas trees sold in the US are firs.

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Some turkeys are so big they have a hard time walking, but scientists have found ways to breed healthier birds

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A heritage breed black Spanish tom turkey free ranging in a grassy green field.
Farmers bread turkeys to grow so big, so fast, that their skeletons couldn't keep up and their legs gave in. Heritage turkey breeds, like this one, don't have that problem.

Elizabeth Beard

Traditional shark nets are known as 'walls of death.' A new eco-friendly barrier uses magnetic fields to deter sharks instead of trap them.

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Black pipes attached to cement blocks underwater
The SharkSafe Barrier uses pipes and magnets to create a physical and magnetic barrier for sharks.

Sara Andreotti

A NASA cat named Taters makes history by starring in the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space

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A screenshot from the video NASA laser-beamed to Earth from deep space.

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A high schooler's award-winning algorithm could help Elon Musk's company Neuralink and pave the way for neural implants that never need replacing

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Canadian high school student Anush Mutyala with the headset he used as part of his neural implant science fair project.

Canada-Wide Science Fair

The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations

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Molten salts are used as coolants in the Papirus installation at CEA Cadarache in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, France.

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms and a 21-year-long winter in exquisite detail

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A new image of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope's new portrait of Uranus show the planet's rings and polar clouds like never before.

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Blue Origin is in for a reawakening

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Jeff Bezos is pictured looking out of the window of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket wearing sunglasses.
Jeff Bezos gestures from inside a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule, similar to the kind he traveled to the edge of space in.

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2 nuclear reactors that can power 1 million US homes with clean, sustainable energy is $21 billion over budget and years behind schedule

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two cooling towers for a nuclear reactor appear above their power plants with many transmission lines running from them
Units 3, left, and 4 and their cooling towers stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia.

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Remote work stifles innovation, a massive new study finds

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Two people working in an office successfully waving to someone else by the door

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Before the pandemic, most managers assumed that working from home was a productivity killer. Without the discipline of an office, they thought, employees would lounge around in their pajamas, binge Netflix, and get nothing done.

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