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Leatherback sea turtle on a sandy beach at sunset, with spotted dark skin pattern and large flippers, ocean waves and forested coastline in background.

🐢🌊 Ancient mariners that shared the planet with dinosaurs, sea #turtles have navigated our oceans for 100 million years. All 7 species now face threats from fishing nets, plastic pollution, and climate change, but #conservation efforts show hope for recovery.

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Book cover of "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko, showing Princess Elizabeth in a paper bag dress at a yellow castle entrance, facing a large green dragon with smoke and flames.

👸📄 What happens when a princess has nothing left but a paper bag and her prince needs rescuing? Elizabeth uses cleverness instead of force to outsmart a dragon in this classic tale that flips fairy tale expectations. #literature #books

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🧲💧 Scientists developed magnetic powders that attach to tiny plastic particles in #water and can be pulled out with strong magnets. The method removes 92-96% of microplastics from drinking water and wastewater, and costs about $41 to treat 1,000 liters. #science

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When chimps helped cool the planet What chimpanzees can teach us about climate change

🐵🌍 Scientists in the UK discovered that #chimpanzees acted as "proto-gardeners" helping African rainforests recover from a major collapse 2,500 years ago. #climate

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Mic’d bats reveal midnight songbird attacks Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

🦇🐦 Researchers at Aarhus University equipped greater noctule #bats with biologgers containing accelerometers, microphones, and altimeters to study their hunting behavior. #nature

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A Married Couple in New Orleans Found a Stone in Their Backyard. It Turned Out to Be an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Gravestone The piece bears a Latin inscription describing the legionary’s service aboard a warship

🏛️🪦 A Tulane anthropologist discovered a Latin-inscribed stone in their New Orleans backyard that experts identified as a 1,900-year-old Roman gravestone for sailor Sextus Congenius Verus. #archaeology #history

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A massive colony of Himalayan giant honey bees covers a vertical cliff face beneath a rock overhang, with thousands of bees forming a dark, densely packed nest against the grey stone and surrounding vegetation.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐝🏔️ The world's largest honeybee species builds nests on vertical Himalayan cliffs. When hornets approach, guard bees lift their abdomens in a synchronized wave that ripples through the colony, making it difficult for predators to target individual #bees. #nature

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Animated cartoon characters representing geometric shapes: a blue triangle with glasses and shaggy hair gestures toward a colorful dodecahedron, while an orange rectangle with a friendly expression looks on.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📐🎵 What does a point have in common with a line, a plane, and a solid? New Zealand musician Peter Weatherall breaks down dimensions zero through three with original songs from his album "Numb 'n' Number." #math #music

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A Virus From 5 Million Years Ago Is Still Building Every Human Ever Born It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem cells.

🧬🦠 Stanford University researchers found that pieces of ancient virus DNA, leftover from infections 5 million years ago, are still necessary for human babies to develop properly. #evolution #science

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A massive colony of Himalayan giant honey bees covers a vertical cliff face beneath a rock overhang, with thousands of bees forming a dark, densely packed nest against the grey stone and surrounding vegetation.

🐝🏔️ The world's largest honeybee species builds nests on vertical Himalayan cliffs. When hornets approach, guard bees lift their abdomens in a synchronized wave that ripples through the colony, making it difficult for predators to target individual #bees. #nature

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📜🦁 The University of Aberdeen has digitized the 13th-century Aberdeen Bestiary, one of the most lavish #medieval illuminated manuscripts featuring real and mythological #animals with moral teachings.

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Animated cartoon characters representing geometric shapes: a blue triangle with glasses and shaggy hair gestures toward a colorful dodecahedron, while an orange rectangle with a friendly expression looks on.

📐🎵 What does a point have in common with a line, a plane, and a solid? New Zealand musician Peter Weatherall breaks down dimensions zero through three with original songs from his album "Numb 'n' Number." #math #music

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An adult American alligator floats in dark water with several small baby alligators riding on its back and head, surrounded by reflected trees in a natural wetland setting.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐊🥚 American alligator hatchlings slice their way out of eggs in Mississippi bayous. The nest temperature determines their sex. These tiny reptiles instinctively find water and their protective mother for their first year of life. #science #nature

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Two microscopic close-up images showing insect compound eyes - one blue-tinted eye with spiky features on the left and one orange-tinted rounded compound eye on the right, both displaying the intricate hexagonal patterns of their visual structures.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐉🪰 Dragonfly vs Damselfly: Who's your pick? These ancient cousins evolved different hunting strategies in the same pond. #science #nature

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It turns out our Galaxy might not be doomed after all. We asked a scientist to explain why | BBC Sky at Night Magazine A study suggests the Andromeda-Milky Way collision might not happen after all. We spoke to one of the scientists to explain why.

🌌💥 New research suggests Andromeda-Milky Way collision may not happen after all. #science #space

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A digital collage showing an urban street intersection transformed into a lush, green wetland environment with floating structures, vegetation-covered buildings, and futuristic transportation elements integrated into the landscape.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏗️🌊 Artist Olalekan Jeyifous reimagines Crown Heights through speculative #architecture that asks: How do communities create "home" beyond buildings? #art

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🐦⚔️ The Aztecs called #hummingbirds "huitzillin" and viewed them as fierce warriors despite their tiny size, associating them with their supreme god Huitzilopochtli whose name means "hummingbird of the south." #history

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There are actually 9 types of precipitation It’s more complicated than just rain, sleet, and snow.

☔️📊 Scientists at the University of Michigan and NASA used machine learning to identify nine distinct precipitation types instead of the traditional three. #weather #science

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🌌⚫ The James Webb telescope finds most galaxies rotate preferentially, suggesting universe may exist inside black hole. #space #science

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An adult American alligator floats in dark water with several small baby alligators riding on its back and head, surrounded by reflected trees in a natural wetland setting.

🐊🥚 American alligator hatchlings slice their way out of eggs in Mississippi bayous. The nest temperature determines their sex. These tiny reptiles instinctively find water and their protective mother for their first year of life. #science #nature

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Two microscopic close-up images showing insect compound eyes - one blue-tinted eye with spiky features on the left and one orange-tinted rounded compound eye on the right.

🐉🪰 Dragonfly vs Damselfly: Who's your pick? These ancient cousins evolved different hunting strategies in the same pond. #science #nature

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A digital collage showing an urban street intersection transformed into a lush, green wetland environment with floating structures, vegetation-covered buildings, and futuristic transportation elements integrated into the landscape.

🏗️🌊 Artist Olalekan Jeyifous reimagines Crown Heights through speculative #architecture that asks: How do communities create "home" beyond buildings? #art

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/K6UaX

Bamboo-derived biodegradable plastic is as durable as the real thing Bamboo plastic sounds like a compelling eco-friendly material for a variety of applications, but its questionable durability and recyclability leave a lot to be desired.

🎋♻️ Scientists created bamboo-based plastic that matches traditional plastic strength while biodegrading in soil within 50 days. #science #innovation

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Easter Island's statues actually 'walked,' and physics backs it up For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and on-the-ground ...

🗿⚖️ Scientists confirmed Easter Island statues were moved upright using coordinated rope-pulling in zig-zag motion. #archaeology #physics

👉 phys.org/news/2025-10-easter...

The Sky Isn’t Blue Because of the Ocean — It’s the Other Way Around - discoverwildscience The sky isn’t blue because of the ocean—it's the other way around. Discover why light scattering makes the sky appear blue.

🌊🔵 Atmospheric molecules scatter blue light more than other colors, creating our blue sky and ocean reflections. #science #physics

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With deadly long jaws that drain their prey dry, this is one of the world’s most spine-chilling spiders — and it's known as a lethal assassin | Discover Wildlife

🕷️🔪 Assassin #spiders found in Australia, South Africa and Madagascar are specialized spider-hunting predators that track their prey for days by following silk drag lines, then infiltrate webs undetected and lure victims by plucking web strands. #nature

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Illustrated diagram showing a glowing meteor entering from upper left, several gray asteroids floating in dark blue space, and an orange and blue telescope in lower right corner.

☄️🪨 When does a meteor become a meteorite? What makes a comet different from an asteroid? Each name change marks where a space rock is and what it's doing on its journey through the solar system. #space #astronomy

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦜🎵 Meet Apollo, a Superb Lyrebird whose vocal performances include kookaburras, magpies, car alarms, and chainsaws. His specialized syrinx allows perfect mimicry, while his floor-raking behavior engineers eastern Australia's eucalypt forests. #science #birds

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A Superb Lyrebird with gray-brown plumage stands on forest floor debris with its distinctive S-shaped tail feathers raised and fanned out in an elaborate white-edged display against a background of fencing and vegetation.

🦜🎵 Meet Apollo, a Superb Lyrebird whose vocal performances include kookaburras, magpies, car alarms, and chainsaws. His specialized syrinx allows perfect mimicry, while his floor-raking behavior engineers eastern Australia's eucalypt forests. #science #birds

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Young banded mongoose pup resting on sandy ground, showing its brown fur and small rounded ears. From BBC's Animal Super Parents documentary filmed in Uganda.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦡👶 Banded mongoose mothers sync births to the same day. When the alpha has babies, other pregnant mothers deliver too. The result: mothers can't tell which pups are theirs and care for all equally. #animals #nature

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