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Photographer Captures the Fairytale-Like Horses Who Roam Iceland’s Epic Landscape
Photographer Drew Doggett is known for traveling the world, capturing extraordinary landscapes, people, and cultures. One of his most enchanting series to date, titled In the Realm of Legends, captures the one-of-a-kind beauty...
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Illinois Expunges Nearly Half a Million Cannabis Arrest Records 4 Years Ahead of Schedule
Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPhotographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIllinois officials have pardoned 9,219 conviction records related to cannabis-related charges Illinois officials announced Thursday that nearly half a million cannabis arrest...
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Why Canada Could Be Next To Allow Psychedelic Therapy (And How It’s Already Changing Lives)
Canada has an international reputation for progressive health policies, take for example its publicly funded healthcare program and its assisted dying laws. It also led the way in drug reform when...
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Silent Rooftop Wind Turbines Could Generate Half of a Household's Energy Needs
Small wind turbines scaled to the right size for residential and urban areas have so far lived in the shadows of their larger wind-farm-sized counterparts. The power output has been too low...
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Why Platypus Are So Weird - Their Genes Are Part Bird, Reptile, And Mammal
Platypus eating a worm. (JohnCarnemolla/Getty Images) NATURE Now We Know Why Platypus Are So Weird - Their Genes Are Part Bird, Reptile, And Mammal The first complete map of a...
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Scientists Explain How Trees Talk Through an Ancient ‘Otherworld’ Network
Trees talk to each other deep underground. It’s an idea still relatively new to science but familiar to ancient beliefs. Today, scientists are confirming that forests act like one big superorganism. Below...
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Antarctica Snow Is Made of Stardust!?!?
Recently, scientists discovered iron-60—a rare isotope on Earth—in snow in Antarctica that had accumulated in just the past two decades. There’s something special about snow. Snow days. Snow forts. Snowmen....
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This Artist Uses Snowshoes to Carve Massive, Ephemeral Artworks into the Snow
All photos courtesy Simon Beck Check out these incredible works by English artist Simon Beck. KATE WERTHEIMER – December 18, 2019 | Updated December 15, 2020 Simon Beck‘s art...
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“Leaf Sheep” Sea Slugs Look Cute AF!
Photo source: Lynn Wu Costasiella kuroshimae (also referred to as “leaf sheep” and “Shaun the sheep”) is a species of sacoglossan sea slug whose beady eyes and flat face make it look...
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Stunning images of MANTISES. Our little alien friends.
MANTISES ARE AN ORDER OF INSECTS that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. They are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats.
