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Dogs are beloved members of 90 million American households, and the number scientists just pulled from nearly 1, 000 bags of kibble reveals an uncomfortable truth hiding in every bowl
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (738+ words) Picture a golden retriever, nose deep in a steel bowl, working through a pound of beef based kibble the way it does every single morning. It is one of the most'familiar scenes'in America, playing out in 90 million households right now....
Workers are stabilizing the Hudson riverbed to carve a 9-mile passage for 200, 000 daily commuters, and the grey material holding it all together is being studied 250 miles above Earth for a reason almost no one sees coming
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (833+ words) Something enormous is happening under the Hudson River right now, and almost nobody above ground can feel it. Workers have been stabilizing the riverbed using deep soil mixing, pumping cement through buried pipes to harden the earth into something tunnel-boring…...
Clothes dryers promised dry laundry in an hour, rain or shine, in the space of a single closet, but the lint you pull off the screen is less than 80 percent of what every load gives off
6+ hour, 2+ min ago (739+ words) In most American homes there is a machine that made a whole chore almost disappear. Toss the wet laundry in, press a button, and warm dry clothes come out an hour later. The hard part is not the laundry anymore,…...
Pink is almost nonexistent in nature, but NASA has just found it in mysterious "galactic pearls" formed 3 million years ago
17+ hour, 40+ min ago (431+ words) Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sejong Univ. /Hur et al; JWST: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand Scores of stars ringed in neon pink blaze against clouds…...
Alligator blood wiped out all 23 dangerous bacteria in a lab test while human blood killed only 8, and the hidden chemistry behind it may be the new weapon against the superbugs antibiotics can no longer stop
20+ hour, 39+ min ago (731+ words) Picture a swamp in southern Louisiana on a hot August afternoon. The water is thick with bacteria, fungi and rotting matter. Anything with an open wound that slips into it is asking for'serious trouble. The American alligator belongs to a…...
USGS scientists turned a Colorado creek bright pink to map the underground water flowing through structures not seen in 100 years
21+ hour, 40+ min ago (551+ words) Something strange occurred on a serene section of Colorado land. A creek turned bright pink. The color did not diffuse randomly or disappear rapidly. Instead, it followed the creek's course of travel. After a brief period of time, the creek…...
They sent robots into the deadliest stretch of ocean on Earth, where 800 ships have sunk, and found underwater mountains quietly running one of the planet's biggest carbon pumps
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (751+ words) Picture the most savage stretch of ocean on the planet. Waves up to 60 feet high in the fiercest storms, currents that roar without pause. A corridor so ferocious it has swallowed an estimated 800 ships and 20, 000 lives since humans first dared…...
Nonstick pans were sold as the effortless, healthier way to cook, but scientists counted 9, 100 particles coming off a single scratch, and that turns out to be the smallest of the problems hiding in the coating
20+ hour, 39+ min ago (733+ words) There is a pan in almost every American kitchen that was supposed to make cooking effortless. It needs almost no oil, food slides right off, and it wipes clean in seconds. It was'sold as the healthier, easier way to cook,…...
Psychology of always planning for the worst case: Psychology says people who expect things to go wrong aren't pessimists, they may be running a sharper forecast than everyone betting on the best
20+ hour, 45+ min ago (734+ words) You probably know someone who always asks the hard question first. Before the trip is booked, they want to know what happens if the flight falls through. Before the money is spent, they have already pictured the month it all…...
A ship carrying 10, 800 cars across 14 decks just set sail as the world's largest car carrier, and the floating parking structure inside it is something almost nobody on the shore ever imagines
18+ hour, 45+ min ago (833+ words) Picture a parking structure so vast it holds nearly 11, 000 cars stacked across 14 floors. Now imagine that structure is moving, cutting through open ocean at 19 knots, bound for the other side of the world. That is not a thought experiment. It…...