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Elephants in Kenya may treat themselves with medicinal plants
Local experts named 35 plants and four kinds of soil that elephants seem to seek out when unwell, and some say mothers give plants to their calves.
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Endangered pygmy raccoons turn trash paper into toy balls
Two young sisters on Cozumel soaked paper, rolled it in sand and played with it. Scientists think the habit spread between them.
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In hot ultramarathons, the speed gap between men and women shrinks
A study of 1.35 million finish times found that heat slows men more than women, most of all when the air is also humid.
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Cats carry a chemical ID card in their urine, study finds
A mix of 13 unusual fatty acids is different for every cat and stays the same over time. It may also solve a 100-year-old kidney mystery.
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Signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be easier to spot
Two new studies show that its ice spray sorts ocean chemicals into separate grains, and that one kind of microbe can live in its ocean's conditions.
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Black hole jets reach 10 to 20 times past a galaxy's visible edge
Astronomers saw glowing gas far outside hundreds of galaxies, lined up with the jets of their central black holes.
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Fervo's Utah geothermal plant sends its first 33 MW to the grid
Cape Station is the first large power plant to use enhanced geothermal, a method borrowed from oil and gas drilling.
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Energy Department puts $1.9 billion into upgrading old power lines
Thirty-one projects in 26 states will upgrade existing lines instead of building new ones, adding more than 23 gigawatts.
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Tesla Semi enters volume production at a new Nevada factory
The electric truck shown in 2017 now has a plant built for 50,000 a year and a price just under $300,000.
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Arctic sea ice ties for 10th-lowest summer minimum since 1978
The minimum came on September 12, and all 20 of the lowest on record have occurred since 2007.
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Dog brains track consonants in speech, just like human brains
Hungarian researchers recorded brain waves from 20 dogs and 20 people, and both picked out words built around consonants more easily.
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Europe's most powerful supercomputer gets European processors
JUPITER in Jülich has started receiving Rhea1 chips from French company SiPearl after running mostly on Nvidia hardware.