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Double Meteor Showers Light Up Late July Skies

Mark your calendar for the final week of July—the night sky is about to put on a show worth losing sleep over. Two separate meteor showers will peak...

7/2/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Volunteers Who Drive Six Hours for a Hurt Hummingbird

There ’ s a thump-thump-thump in the trunk, and it ’ s not the bass—it ’ s a juvenile bald eagle waking up after being electrocuted on a power line....

7/2/2026

Andrew Johnson

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One Man's Midnight Ride Changed America Forever

It was a dying man on horseback, racing through a thunderstorm in the dark, who tipped the scales toward American independence. Caesar Rodney, a...

7/2/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Wisconsin-Sized Climate Refuge: AI Maps Where Coral Reefs Will Survive

In what might be the first genuinely hopeful piece of coral news in years, scientists have used artificial intelligence to pinpoint roughly 64,000...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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One Male Bison, 25 Wild Calves: Azerbaijan's Unlikely Comeback Story

Picture this: Seven years ago, a handful of European bison stepped out of transport crates onto the slopes of Shahdagh in northern Azerbaijan,...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Michigan Takes Stand: Kids' Lemonade Stands Finally Get Legal Protection

Here ’ s something that shouldn ’ t need a law: kids running a lemonade stand. Yet here we are in 2026, and Michigan just passed one—because...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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One Hour a Month: How France Is Rewriting Loneliness

A French civil servant stumbled onto a terrible fact—an elderly woman in Paris had been dead in her apartment for four months before anyone realized....

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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One Hour a Month Changes Everything in France

One morning, a French civil servant learned something that stopped him cold: an elderly woman in Paris had been dead in her apartment for four months...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Euclid Telescope Zooms Into Galactic Center, Spots 60 Million Stars and Thousands of Hidden Worlds

The European Space Agency just handed astronomers a golden ticket to a cosmic treasure hunt. Its Euclid Telescope, stationed 1 million miles from...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Nature's Cleanup Crew: Why Water Fleas Beat Engineering for the Reflecting Pool

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become Washington D.C. ’ s most visible environmental eyesore—a murky, algae-choked pond that ’ s supposed...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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123 Years of Pedal Power: When the Tour de France Changed Everything

On July 1, 1903, a newspaper called L ’ Auto made a bold bet: start a bicycle race so grueling, so ambitious, that it would become the greatest...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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Swipe Left on Apps: Why Real-Life Dating Is Making a Comeback

After years of letting algorithms decide who we meet, people are stepping away from their screens and into rooms with actual humans. In-person dating...

7/1/2026

Andrew Johnson

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