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.

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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.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged a stunning supernova remnant and revealed details Hubble couldn't capture

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Image of Crab Nebula taken by Hubble on left and by JWST on right.
One of the features JWST reveals so clearly in the Crab Nebula is the dense, spinning pulsar at the nebula's center. The pulsar isn't nearly as obvious in the Hubble image (on left).

Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (Arizona State University); Webb Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University).

What is white hydrogen? Scientists say the clean-energy gas could save the world.

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The interior of a hydrogen power plant in Germany.

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Tennessee couple spots rare white deer in backyard

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Albino deer "blue eyes" keeps her watchful eyes on her baby fawn at all times to make sure nothing happens to him.

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Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market

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The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U), a large circular device surrounded by a platform and steps leading to it
The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

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Cold War US spy satellite images reveal nearly 400 undiscovered Roman forts

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Newly discovered Roman forts
Newly discovered Roman forts.

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How might one get pandas to mate? Try leg workouts.

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Giant pandas Tian Tian, left, and Mei Xiang, right, sleep on rocks in their enclosure at the National Zoo.

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Pigeons solve problems the same way AI does, study says

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A head shot of a pretty Woodpidgeon

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