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Clothes really do come back in style every 20 years
The math checks out, so hang on to those jeans. The trend's reliability may be waning as styles continue to diversify, however. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Clothing trends come and go, but in some cases, they don't stay away for too long. For decades, both the fashion industry and its devotees have referenced the so-called "20-year-rule," which suggests society is liable to see certain styles return at semiregular intervals.
NASA wants your hail photos
After grapefruit-sized hail hit Missouri, more images may help improve severe storm forecasting. A CoCoRaHS volunteer submitted this photo that displays a hand holding three large and uniquely shaped hailstones from June 14, 2023. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Tuesday March 10th was a particularly punishing day of bad weather for the residents of Kansas City, Missouri. That evening, hailstones as large as grapefruits bombarded homes, businesses, and vehicles in the area, causing widespread damage to the community.
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Blue crabs have a serious cannibalism problem
But growing up can help these famed Chesapeake crustaceans. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Cannibalism is the number one killer of the crustaceans that congregate in mid-salinity waters like coastal estuaries. As a result, the blue crabs are relying on the safety of some threatened shallow water habitats, according to a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (). The lives of blue crabs are anything but boring.
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Marine biologists spot rare blue whales off Massachusetts coast
The team observed the gentle giants two days in a row. Blue whales can be found in every ocean except the Arctic. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. As if soaring above the brilliant blue ocean isn't spectacular enough, the New England Aquarium's aerial survey team recently experienced two back-two-back sightings of blue whales --a little déjà blue, per the aquarium's clever social media post. The first sighting occurred on February 27, when scientists from the Aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life spotted a blue whale ().
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These birds listen to their parents to avoid being eaten
Jackdaw chicks learn not to sweat the small stuff. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. How do chicks learn safe bird calls from ones that mean possible imminent death? According to new research, jackdaw (two species of bird in the genus) chicks listen to their elders--but there's also an evolutionary instinct at play. In a study recently published in the journal, researchers played the sound of predator calls paired with adult jackdaw alarm calls or the neutral adult jackdaw contact calls to 20 to 30-day-old jackdaw nestlings across 39 wild nests in southwestern England.
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Wild bobcat making remarkable recovery after getting hit by car
Two orthopedic surgeons and one four hour surgery later, the young feline is on the mend. The surgery to heal the injured wildcat took four hours. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In February, Tracie Young, director of the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Pennsylvania, received an unforgettable phone call. A game warden asked if the center in southeastern Pennsylvania had room for a bobcat that had been hit and dragged by a car.
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Longest snake ever measured is over 23.5 feet long
Environment Animals Wildlife Endangered Species Longest snake ever measured is over 23.5 feet long Nicknamed the'Baroness,' this python is longer than two great white sharks. The Baroness may be as much as 10 percent longer than initially measured. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A snake in southwest Indonesia has shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest serpent ever spotted in the wild. Nicknamed "Ibu Baron" (the Baroness), the giant female reticulated python () discovered in late 2025 measures 23-feet-and-8-inches from head to tail--about the same length as a regulation soccer goal.
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Ancient Mayan water filters stopped a lot--just not mercury poisoning
The civilization made the most of its technology, but everything has its limits. Mayan society often relied on cinnabar, a deep red pigment that got its hue from mercury sulfide. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength--and limitations--of Mayan water science. While the civilization's purification techniques resulted in comparatively clean drinking sources, archaeologists say the unknowable consequences of a commonly used, deep-red pigment consistently subjected the Indigenous population to toxic mercury poisoning .
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Humans' love of crystals goes back at least 6 million years
Environment Animals Wildlife Humans' love of crystals goes back at least 6 million years Experiments with chimpanzees show a shared love of shiny things. Crystals have been found along human remains in several archeological dig sites. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long as 780,000 years ago.
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