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Volunteers spend 30 years restoring a Victorian sewer pump station
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.
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Hiker finds 3,000-year-old bull sculpture in Spain
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.
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Efficient nonmyopic batch active search
Active search is a learning paradigm for actively identifying as many members of a given class as possible. A critical target scenario is high-throughput screening for scientific discovery, such as drug or materials discovery. In these settings, specialized instruments can often evaluate \emph{multiple} points simultaneously; however, all existing work on active search focuses on sequential acquisition.
The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies
Project Acoustic Kitty went about as well as you'd expect. The CIA tried to train cat spies. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Here's the scene: A man wearing a trench coat and a fedora sits on a park bench, looking up frequently from his newspaper to cast furtive glances at passersby. A stray cat wanders by.
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11 wild photos show the Amazon River in its glory
New photography book takes readers on a journey down the world's longest river. Magnificent frigate birds (Fregata magnificens) make long foraging trips far over the Atlantic Ocean. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The vital Amazon River is a lifeline for flora and fauna alike. The mighty river is celebrated in a new book, .
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An odd-nosed crocodile ate our prehistoric ancestors
'Lucy' probably needed to watch her back. Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The species is named Lucy's hunter, because it overlapped with the famed Lucy and her hominin kin and would have hunted them. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Humans have contended with crocodiles for a long time.
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Explore the human body in stunning, 3D detail with a new online tool
The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs. The Human Organ Atlas portal is open-access and includes the kidneys, brain, heart, and more. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. If watching is giving you a renewed interest in the human body in all of its gory glory, there's a new tool that will help satisfy your curiosity. An international team of scientists developed an open-access 3D portal where users can explore human organs in detail.
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Scientists suggest modifying cars to hit fewer hedgehogs
Placing ultrasound repellants on cars could protect the spiny mammals. Up to one in three hedgehogs in local populations die on roads. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. When it comes to how animals use ultrasound, chances are you immediately think of bats and their amazing echolocation ability. However, researchers have discovered another--arguably much cuter--animal that can also hear ultrasound, with significant implications for its conservation.
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New psychedelic fungus rewrites origins of magic mushrooms
The fungi prefer to grow in cow dung. A newly described African species in the magic mushroom family confirms its evolutionary origin. 'Psilocybe ochraceocentrata' is found growing on cattle dung in the grasslands of southern Africa and Zimbabwe. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The discovery of a new magic mushroom species in Africa is forcing mycologists to take another look at the famous psychedelic fungi's evolutionary history.
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A buried jar of imperial gold coins resurfaces in Russia
Who hid the 409 rubles during the Russian Revolution remains a mystery. Most of the coins are 10-ruble gold pieces minted prior to the Russian Revolution. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A remarkable trove of Russian history is finally seeing the light of day after spending nearly 110 years hidden underground. While surveying a historic home in the small town of Torzhok about 135 miles northwest of Moscow, archaeologists discovered a clay container filled with 409 gold coins buried beneath the structure's foundation.
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