The next lucrative side hustle: selling electricity to your neighbors

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Solar power turning into cash flow.
Instead of relying on monolithic utilities to keep the lights on, the rising popularity of solar panels and battery storage could allow average Americans to sell electricity to their neighbors.

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Scientists thought this tiny, blind mole was extinct for over 85 years, but they were wrong

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An up close photo of De Winton's golden mole on sandy substrate and leaves.

Nix Souness*

The world's biggest plane, with wings longer than a football field, flies with a fueled-up hypersonic vehicle for the first time

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The Stratolaunch Roc is shown from below on a blue sky background. A vehicle is strapped to its underside.
Stratolaunch's Roc is shown carrying a Talon-A rocket.

Stratolaunch

A pregnant megamouth shark found on a Philippines beach was the first ever seen — and it solved a long-standing mystery

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A stock image of a megamouth shark caught in fishing nets in the central Philippines.

REUTERS/Rhaydz Barcia

Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

L Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois; iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

Jeff Bezos should pay up for using the Amazon's name, says this Brazilian governor

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the Amazon rainforest.

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Bunny the 'talking' dog's owner says the skepticism from the scientific community hurts the most

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Alexis Devine and her social media famous dog, Bunny.
Alexis Devine and her social media famous dog, Bunny.

Vera Pashkevich/Vera Pash Photo

California's Salton Sea could hold enough lithium for 375 million batteries, and it could meet US EV needs for decades

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A biologist steering an airboat across the shallow waters of the Salton Sea near Niland, California.

AP

Penguins arguing, a sleepy polar bear, and a happy turtle are in the running for wildlife photo of the year, and you can vote on them

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A turtle lets a dragonfly balance on its face instead of immediately eating it, it's mouth open in what looks like a gleeful grin.
The photographer described this shot as "a moment of peaceful coexistence."

Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Earth's core may be coated in a layer of crystals created by water leaking from the surface: study

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An artist's impression shows a cross-section of the Earth. Inside subducted water-rich earth is shown going towards the core and magma is shown rising toward the surface.
An artist's impression of how water could seep into the Earth, creating a layer of crystals around the core.

Image courtesy Yonsei University

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