Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to get them down — and 2023 could be the most deadly season yet

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Mount Everest climbers
Mountaineers are seen making their ascent of Mount Everest on May 12, 2021.

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America's cities are vying for a hot new title: best place to ride out the coming dystopia

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Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.
Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.

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Sea turtles laid a record 52,500 nests in Florida but 99% are female

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A baby sea turtle leaves its nest in florida
Most of the baby sea turtles being born in Florida are girls.

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I dedicated my life to biology until I went on 'Naked and Afraid' and realized I could make a bigger difference doing TV instead

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Forrest Galante holding a Fernandina Giant Tortoise
This female Fernandina Giant Tortoise is nicknamed Fern.

Forrest Galante

What happens to the thousands of dead NYC rats that are being exterminated with a wildly successful new method

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A rat climbs into a box with food in it on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City on July 4 2017.
A rat climbs into a box with food in it on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City on July 4 2017.

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Chunks of an alien world could be hidden deep within our planet, say scientists

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An artist's illustration shows a smaller planet, Theia, crashign into the early Earth, which looks barren and molten. Fragments of Theia are shown to migrate inside our planet.
An artist's impression shows the hypothesized collision between Theia and Earth

DENG Hongping and Hangzhou Sphere Studio

Swedish architects are building skyscrapers out of wood laminates glued together. The material is shockingly sturdy.

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Miles of buildings covered in snow viewed from a high vantage point
The view of the city of Skelleftea is pictured from the 20th floor of the Sara culture house, one of the world's tallest wooden buildings, on February 22, 2022, in the Vasterbotten county, north-eastern Sweden. - In Sweden, a new generation of wooden buildings pushes the boundaries of tradition.

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A rat exterminator who's helped successfully eliminate nearly 100% of rats in a section of NYC says people clap, cheer, and offer him free beer when he comes around

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Two rats on the floor eating seeds
Rats are prolific breeders, and there are millions of them in New York City.

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I meticulously schedule the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb, so we can capture the cosmos in ways we've never seen before

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A woman smiles in front of NASA's DSN Goldstone complex.
Kari Bosley is in charge of planning when giant satellites will make contact with the James Webb Space Telescope as it moves through outerspace.

Kari Bosley

An ancient Egyptian book of spells to guide the dead in the afterlife was found buried with mummies

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A picture shows the inside of a sarcophagus, in which is placed an ancient Egyptian mummy in good state of conservation , under an ornate cartonnage and a mask representing the deceased's face.
An photo of a mummy found at the Tuna al-Gebel site, presented at a press conference on October 15.

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

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