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Volunteers spend 30 years restoring a Victorian sewer pump station

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Reviving the Claymills Pumping Station in Staffordshire, England has been a labor of love. Restoration work has progressed steadily for over 30 years. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's always good to have a passion project, but what's going on in Staffordshire, England, is likely a one-of-a-kind endeavor. In the town of Burton upon Trent, a rotating team of volunteers has spent over 30 years restoring a Victorian pump house.


Neanderthals used antibiotics, new experiment suggests

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Gooey birch tar helped our distant cousins make weapons and possibly treat wounds. The bark of birch trees has been used to produce tar for more than 150,000 years. The center photo shows birch bark tar condensed onto a rock that borders a hearth. When scraped off the rocks, the viscous tar can be used as both an adhesive and antibiotic. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.


Clothes really do come back in style every 20 years

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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.


How marine mammals stay hydrated in a salty sea

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This adorable sea lion has to eat five to eight percent of its body weight every day to stay healthy and hydrated. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land for a watery habitat no longer exist, we still have plenty of stunning examples: Think dolphins, whales, manatees, porpoises. There's even a whole suborder of carnivores called the pinnipeds, which includes seals, sea lions, and walruses who move between land and water.


The 10 most popular US National Parks in 2025

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Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon all make the list, but aren't number one. Yosemite National Park came in at number five on the National Parks Service list. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 2025, the parks received 323 million recreation visits, according to new data release by the National Parks Service. The data includes visitors to National Parks, National Historic Sites, National Memorials, National Seashores, National Parkways, and other designated public lands.


NASA wants your hail photos

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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.


A meteor exploded over Ohio and Pennsylvania

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A very loud bang accompanied the disintegrating space rock. Although loud, little of the meteor is expected to have survived the atmospheric entry. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Residents across northeastern Ohio received a rude--or at least extremely unexpected--wake-up call this morning. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the loud boom experienced across the region around 9 a.m. EDT on March 17 was most likely the result of a meteor disintegrating as it sped through Earth's atmosphere.


Hiker finds 3,000-year-old bull sculpture in Spain

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The Late Bronze Age relic is only the fourth tauriform discovered on the island. Bulls were symbolic animals across much of the prehistoric Mediterranean. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A hiker recently noticed an out-of-place object in his path while trekking through the hills of Mallorca, Spain . After reviewing the artifact, archaeologists now believe the 1.25-inch-long relic is a rare example of a metal bull sculpture that dates back over 3,000 years.


Ireland's 250-million-year-old gray spot

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The folds in the tilted rock layers and differences in their erosion rate gives the limestone the step-like appearance we see today. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While Ireland's natural landscape is known for every shade of green imaginable, a different color dominates one part of Ireland. Along the Burren Region on the country's western coast, gray limestone pavement covers the rocky and treeless landscape. NASA's Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured a view of Burren, showing the rocky landscape and an 860-foot-tall limestone hill called Moneen Mountain.


Not everyone has an internal monologue

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Your inner monologue may be less constant than you think--more like a fridge light that turns on when you look. Thinking doesn't always involve words. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. When I first started researching this story, I assumed I was writing about other people: those fascinating outliers who reportedly lack an internal monologue--the experience of actively speaking words in your mind as a sort of private narration of your life. Then I got on a Zoom call with Dr. Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who has spent 50 years studying inner experience, and somewhere in the first ten minutes, I started to wonder: What if I'm talking about myself?