Every story across the desks, in publication order, newest first.
Two ant species from Papua New Guinea got Game of Thrones names. The reason the paper matters is what microtomography revealed under the spines.
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A Dutch sculpture festival built rooms out of compacted sand and let people sleep in them. CNN noticed. The organiser was already fully booked.
A support garment that stays on during treatment addresses two separate problems at once: how exposed the patient feels, and how reproducible the setup is.
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Thirty years of development, a prototype that genuinely flew, roughly €25 million spent, and no product. The interesting part is where the money went.
TPO promised to pass 10 per cent of revenue to causes customers chose. Company filings show less than 3.8 per cent of gross income reached them.
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Metal prices peaked in 2011 and fell for years. Iron ore lost 77 per cent from its high. The mistake was reading a structural shift as a cycle.
How do animals communicate, and how would you prove it? The test is not whether information moved. It is whether the receiver behaved differently.
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Twenty-three horses learned to touch one of three symbols to say blanket on, blanket off, or no change. Then they used them according to the weather.
The daily migration of marine animals should stop when the sun does not rise. Instead it keeps running on a 24.8-hour day, timed to the moon.
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Two campaigns filled most of the ballot. The voters responded by using a rule that had barely been exercised in sixty years of the prize.
The photogenic ones are arch dams in narrow gorges, and they look that way because the rock is doing most of the structural work.
A climate scientist at Reading stripped the axes, the legend and the numbers off the temperature record. Removing information is what made it travel.
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On 20 June 2013 the overnight rate hit 13.44 per cent. The central bank had the tools to stop it well before that and chose, for a while, not to.
The central Arctic is contested water and almost nobody is in it. In 2014 two Norwegians parked a hovercraft on a floe and let it carry them 2,200 km.
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