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Underpants hanging on a washing line

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TOPSHOT - A pilot takes a flight on a flying taxi prototype during testing in Moscow on March 16, 2021. - Russian developer of passenger drones Hoversurf company tests its Hover drone taxi, a flying vehicle that can fly 30 minutes on one charge at an altitude of 150 meters transporting passengers and cargo up to 300 kg for a distance of up to 100 kilometers at speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The company aims to have these drones operating by 2025. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Costa Rica tropical forest

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What are the 10 coldest places on Earth? © Getty Images

What are the 10 coldest places on Earth?

Could lightning have sparked life on early Earth? © Getty Images

Lightning strikes may have sparked life on early Earth

The evolution of the ocean’s shadowy ‘twilight’ zone may be linked to climate change © Getty Images

Evolution of life in the ocean’s shadowy ‘twilight’ zone may be linked to climate change

A Bengal tigress with a catchlight in her eye lies up to her neck in the dark shadows of a water hole. Her name is Maya 'The Enchantress', and she has orange and black stripes with white patches on her head. Shot with a Nikon D810 in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India on 13 May 2017, which just happened to be my birthday!
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How to hunt for fossils in the UK

How to hunt for fossils in the UK

Extreme annual fires reduce forests' ability to store carbon © Getty Images

Extreme annual fires reduce forests’ ability to store carbon

The science of whale vomit

The bizarre (and pretty gross) science of whale vomit

A prototype of a CubeSat adrift in Earth's orbit for testing

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Jupiter flung the dinosaur-killing comet into Earth, new study suggests ©Gerd Altmann/Pixabay/PA News

Jupiter flung the dinosaur-killing comet into Earth, new study suggests

Quartz and some of the associated minerals that give it color enter into the fossilizing process as solutions, gels, and sols. Although they move as liquids, gels and sols are made up of very small particles bound together by weak electrical bonds. In this specimen, the linear arrays of small round structures were produced by local condensations of particulate mineral. During their consolidation, small puddles of pigment formed that are unrelated to the structure of the bone itself.

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