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Hundreds. Of thousands. Of crabs.
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The cull will include a range of animals deemed troublesome to people—including rhesus monkeys and wild boar in some places
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Farmers, teachers, surveyors and engineers will all be needed in the envisaged Mars settlement
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It's our very own “quasi-moon”
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Carbon nanotubes may not be as strong as scientists once thought
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Earth's largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies
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Beneath that fluffy exterior lies a shrewd understanding of how the world works
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Researchers visited the remains of the Italian luxury liner in a submersible to figure out how quickly wrecks deteriorate
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Scientists announce the second detection of gravitational waves
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Any orbiting moons could be habitable—but scientists have yet to spot them
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Say goodbye to 400 ppm—and hello to Earth's new atmospheric reality
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After millions of years, their light is finally bright enough to see from Earth
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River herring are spawning in Wynants Kill tributary after one of the many dams along the Hudson was removed
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Better technology could make “maceration” go the way of the dodo
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Star gazers, rejoice—the skies above the Grand Canyon will never lose their sparkle
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Sulphur Cave in Steamboat Springs is home to a new species of blood-red worm capable of living in a cave full of hydrogen sulfide
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It’s the mother of all disaster drills for what could be the worst disaster in American history
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New study trained fish to spit at human faces
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A 293.6-foot endangered yellow meranti tree on the island of Borneo was discovered by scanning its forests
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